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... extensive utility . If I can accomplish this , I shall have done my duty ; and if the project is not executed now ... extensively from Watt's own report , saying that it was so able and so just , that had a canal of the size Watt was ...
... extensive utility . If I can accomplish this , I shall have done my duty ; and if the project is not executed now ... extensively from Watt's own report , saying that it was so able and so just , that had a canal of the size Watt was ...
Page 212
... extensive docks but also a ship canal across the Wirral Peninsula to the estuary of the River Dee near Hilbre Island - for all of which Parliamentary powers were to be immediately sought . The Engineers submitted two reports . There ...
... extensive docks but also a ship canal across the Wirral Peninsula to the estuary of the River Dee near Hilbre Island - for all of which Parliamentary powers were to be immediately sought . The Engineers submitted two reports . There ...
Page 313
... extensive harbour accommodation on both the Mersey and Dee . 1828-34 . LEITH . Telford's proposals were to enclose the docks by building an extensive breakwater to within 120 feet of the existing Eastern Pier Head . They were a ...
... extensive harbour accommodation on both the Mersey and Dee . 1828-34 . LEITH . Telford's proposals were to enclose the docks by building an extensive breakwater to within 120 feet of the existing Eastern Pier Head . They were a ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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