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The only accounts of his works and activities that exist are the sort of Autobiography or Life , written partly by himself and partly by John Rickman , his great friend , who edited and published it four years after Telford's death ...
The only accounts of his works and activities that exist are the sort of Autobiography or Life , written partly by himself and partly by John Rickman , his great friend , who edited and published it four years after Telford's death ...
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A letter written many years afterwards explains the mystery> 30 * At Inverness I was surprised with a letter from James Douglass announcing his successful career in France . I am not surprised at it , he was peculiarly fitted for that ...
A letter written many years afterwards explains the mystery> 30 * At Inverness I was surprised with a letter from James Douglass announcing his successful career in France . I am not surprised at it , he was peculiarly fitted for that ...
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But he learnt caution as time went on and a few years later he is writing retaliating - on one occasion demanding ... At the outset Telford had written to all concerned and from most had received such encouraging replies — Fraser of ...
But he learnt caution as time went on and a few years later he is writing retaliating - on one occasion demanding ... At the outset Telford had written to all concerned and from most had received such encouraging replies — Fraser of ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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