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Page 68
... improving the cultivation of which in any considerable portion is very capable . Besides this Navigation , it appears to me , that for the pur- poses of the Fisheries and the improvement of the northern part of the Island , that it is ...
... improving the cultivation of which in any considerable portion is very capable . Besides this Navigation , it appears to me , that for the pur- poses of the Fisheries and the improvement of the northern part of the Island , that it is ...
Page 182
... improvement on so large a scale . ' 12 Ultimately the only portion of the road he actually saw made was the last eleven miles immediately south of Edinburgh on the inland route , including the Pathhead Bridge , built to his design in ...
... improvement on so large a scale . ' 12 Ultimately the only portion of the road he actually saw made was the last eleven miles immediately south of Edinburgh on the inland route , including the Pathhead Bridge , built to his design in ...
Page 252
... improvement in view ( in cer- tain prospect , he might say ) and such as must be highly bene- ficial to that town ; but improvement involves alteration ; and the innumerable instances of well - intended labour in the fens failing of its ...
... improvement in view ( in cer- tain prospect , he might say ) and such as must be highly bene- ficial to that town ; but improvement involves alteration ; and the innumerable instances of well - intended labour in the fens failing of its ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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