James Brindley and the early Engineers ... Abridged from “Lives of the Engineers.'. |
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... prove very successful , not having been carried out with sufficient practical knowledge on the part of the adventurers , nor after any well - devised plan . There were loud calls for some skilled undertaker or engineer ( though the ...
... prove very successful , not having been carried out with sufficient practical knowledge on the part of the adventurers , nor after any well - devised plan . There were loud calls for some skilled undertaker or engineer ( though the ...
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... . The Prymes of Cambridge are lineally descended from him . Tablets to several of the name are still to be found in Hatfield Church . this last attempt proved a mistake , for the northern CHAP . II . FOR THE DRAINAGE OF HATFIELD CHASE . 23.
... . The Prymes of Cambridge are lineally descended from him . Tablets to several of the name are still to be found in Hatfield Church . this last attempt proved a mistake , for the northern CHAP . II . FOR THE DRAINAGE OF HATFIELD CHASE . 23.
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Samuel Smiles. this last attempt proved a mistake , for the northern channel was found insufficient for the discharge of the waters , and floodings of the old lands about Fishlake , Sykehouse , and A true and perfect plot of HADFEILD ...
Samuel Smiles. this last attempt proved a mistake , for the northern channel was found insufficient for the discharge of the waters , and floodings of the old lands about Fishlake , Sykehouse , and A true and perfect plot of HADFEILD ...
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... proved a very dangerous one . The fen - men regarded him as an enemy and repeatedly endeavoured to destroy him . Once they had nearly burned him and his family in their beds . Reading died in 1716 , at a hundred years old , fifty of ...
... proved a very dangerous one . The fen - men regarded him as an enemy and repeatedly endeavoured to destroy him . Once they had nearly burned him and his family in their beds . Reading died in 1716 , at a hundred years old , fifty of ...
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... proved of essential service as labourers . The most important of the new rivers , drains , and sluices included in this further undertaking , were the following : - The New Bedford River , cut from Erith on the Ouse to Salter's Lode on ...
... proved of essential service as labourers . The most important of the new rivers , drains , and sluices included in this further undertaking , were the following : - The New Bedford River , cut from Erith on the Ouse to Salter's Lode on ...
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