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The stones were removed and the lock was excavated in the solid mound . > 10 * This plan of pressing the mud , and sinking the lock pit in it . ' wrote Telford , ' and when the lock was completed removing the mountain clay from the ...
The stones were removed and the lock was excavated in the solid mound . > 10 * This plan of pressing the mud , and sinking the lock pit in it . ' wrote Telford , ' and when the lock was completed removing the mountain clay from the ...
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The greatest difficulty of the whole canal was met with in the foundations of the Fort Augustus Lock , where the ground consisted of loose river gravel , in which the sill of the lowest lock had to be placed twenty feet below the lowest ...
The greatest difficulty of the whole canal was met with in the foundations of the Fort Augustus Lock , where the ground consisted of loose river gravel , in which the sill of the lowest lock had to be placed twenty feet below the lowest ...
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Where we crossed the Ellesmere Canal ( near Beeston ) is Mr. Telford's celebrated Iron Lock - A Quick sand drove him to this expensive expedient but it was known to incur Expense only , not risk - because at Pontcysylte the same Canal ...
Where we crossed the Ellesmere Canal ( near Beeston ) is Mr. Telford's celebrated Iron Lock - A Quick sand drove him to this expensive expedient but it was known to incur Expense only , not risk - because at Pontcysylte the same Canal ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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