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... Government to take an interest in the harbours in the Highlands of Scotland , where changed conditions were causing a rapid depopulation of the country and the complete impoverishment of those who remained . The necessity of action was ...
... Government to take an interest in the harbours in the Highlands of Scotland , where changed conditions were causing a rapid depopulation of the country and the complete impoverishment of those who remained . The necessity of action was ...
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... Government gives the other from this fund ( the For- feited Estates Fund ) , as far as it will reach . Upon these terms £ 20,000 are expending upon Peterhead , and £ 14,000 at Fraser- burgh and the works which we visited at Bervie and ...
... Government gives the other from this fund ( the For- feited Estates Fund ) , as far as it will reach . Upon these terms £ 20,000 are expending upon Peterhead , and £ 14,000 at Fraser- burgh and the works which we visited at Bervie and ...
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... Government had appointed two English Naval officers * as a Com- mission to survey the Isthmus of Panama and Darien . The British Consul at Panama reported to his govern- ment that ' it would be of the utmost importance if His Majesty's ...
... Government had appointed two English Naval officers * as a Com- mission to survey the Isthmus of Panama and Darien . The British Consul at Panama reported to his govern- ment that ' it would be of the utmost importance if His Majesty's ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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