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Page ix
... Navigation of the river obstructed - Boswell , a contractor , attempts to stop the breach , and fails Captain John Perry - His early career as a sailor - Employed by the Czar Peter of Russia to superintend a canal from St. Petersburg to ...
... Navigation of the river obstructed - Boswell , a contractor , attempts to stop the breach , and fails Captain John Perry - His early career as a sailor - Employed by the Czar Peter of Russia to superintend a canal from St. Petersburg to ...
Page x
... navigation in Lancashire , Cheshire , and Yorkshire -Acts passed in 1737 and 1755 - Worsley Brook to the Irwell , Sankey Brook to the Mersey - The Sankey Canal - Canal from the Trent to the Mersey - Brindley makes survey for Earl Gower ...
... navigation in Lancashire , Cheshire , and Yorkshire -Acts passed in 1737 and 1755 - Worsley Brook to the Irwell , Sankey Brook to the Mersey - The Sankey Canal - Canal from the Trent to the Mersey - Brindley makes survey for Earl Gower ...
Page xi
... Navigation and the landowners - Importance of the Duke's scheme -Sketch of the works , and Brindley's contrivances Sale Moor Moss - Steam engine and pump at Dunham- " The Duke's folly " Brindley's floating workshops Provision against ...
... Navigation and the landowners - Importance of the Duke's scheme -Sketch of the works , and Brindley's contrivances Sale Moor Moss - Steam engine and pump at Dunham- " The Duke's folly " Brindley's floating workshops Provision against ...
Page 7
... improve it for purposes of navigation , while large tracts of fertile land were at the same time added to the food - pro- ducing capacity of the country . Another of the districts won from the sea , in CHAP . I. 7 EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES .
... improve it for purposes of navigation , while large tracts of fertile land were at the same time added to the food - pro- ducing capacity of the country . Another of the districts won from the sea , in CHAP . I. 7 EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES .
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... navigation . The rivers also were constantly liable to get silted up , and form for themselves new courses ; and sometimes , during a high tide , the sea would burst in , and in a single night undo the tedious industry of centuries ...
... navigation . The rivers also were constantly liable to get silted up , and form for themselves new courses ; and sometimes , during a high tide , the sea would burst in , and in a single night undo the tedious industry of centuries ...
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