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In consideration of a work belonging not only to Sweden but in a great deal to almost the whole world I hope you will not mind some small inconveniences if not absolute impossibility keeps You from accepting the Gracious invitation of ...
In consideration of a work belonging not only to Sweden but in a great deal to almost the whole world I hope you will not mind some small inconveniences if not absolute impossibility keeps You from accepting the Gracious invitation of ...
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I hope You will acknowledge that I have had your Name signed by him upon those new sheets in the same way and realy very like You signed it Yourself on the former . ' In March 1809 the political change took place in Sweden that deposed ...
I hope You will acknowledge that I have had your Name signed by him upon those new sheets in the same way and realy very like You signed it Yourself on the former . ' In March 1809 the political change took place in Sweden that deposed ...
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Yet I hope the world shall have some more proofs that the Swedish spirit is as yet undaunted as he is quiet and orderly . My Wife and Children as well as I am for ever Your steady Friend B. PLATEN . ' Platen still awaited Telford's ...
Yet I hope the world shall have some more proofs that the Swedish spirit is as yet undaunted as he is quiet and orderly . My Wife and Children as well as I am for ever Your steady Friend B. PLATEN . ' Platen still awaited Telford's ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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