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Page 103
... scheme disappeared ; and the full scheme was never anything like carried out . While the canal was building Telford was requested by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Glasgow to report on the state of the Clyde and means ...
... scheme disappeared ; and the full scheme was never anything like carried out . While the canal was building Telford was requested by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Glasgow to report on the state of the Clyde and means ...
Page 246
... scheme , for which Parliamentary powers were obtained in 1819 to estab- lish a regular ferry service , for which was provided the most distinguished board of Trustees that can ever have been appointed for such a local facility ...
... scheme , for which Parliamentary powers were obtained in 1819 to estab- lish a regular ferry service , for which was provided the most distinguished board of Trustees that can ever have been appointed for such a local facility ...
Page 283
... scheme had led him to investigate means for dealing with the old London Bridge Water Works . These dated from 1581 , and merely consisted of a number of wheels in- stalled in the arches of the bridge and propelled by the race of water ...
... scheme had led him to investigate means for dealing with the old London Bridge Water Works . These dated from 1581 , and merely consisted of a number of wheels in- stalled in the arches of the bridge and propelled by the race of water ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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