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... Early years in Eskdale - apprenticed mason— Works on the New Town in Edinburgh- Somerset House , London - Commissioner's House , Portsmouth Dockyard - Shrewsbury -Surveyor of Shropshire - St . Chad's Church -Montford and Buildwas ...
... Early years in Eskdale - apprenticed mason— Works on the New Town in Edinburgh- Somerset House , London - Commissioner's House , Portsmouth Dockyard - Shrewsbury -Surveyor of Shropshire - St . Chad's Church -Montford and Buildwas ...
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... early part of the nineteenth century , was one of the ablest of Swedish statesmen , though he himself always repudiated any claim to the title or dis- tinction of statesman . At the end of the eighteenth century he was one of the heads ...
... early part of the nineteenth century , was one of the ablest of Swedish statesmen , though he himself always repudiated any claim to the title or dis- tinction of statesman . At the end of the eighteenth century he was one of the heads ...
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... early years were particu- larly arduous . The Institution lacked a strong body of support . Civil Engineers were still not very plentiful and the new society had not the goodwill even of many of the civil engineers that might have ...
... early years were particu- larly arduous . The Institution lacked a strong body of support . Civil Engineers were still not very plentiful and the new society had not the goodwill even of many of the civil engineers that might have ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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