James Brindley and the early Engineers ... Abridged from “Lives of the Engineers.'. |
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... raised along the banks of the river . until the Thames was confined within its present limits , the process of embanking serving to deepen the river and improve it for purposes of navigation , while large tracts of fertile land were at ...
... raised along the banks of the river . until the Thames was confined within its present limits , the process of embanking serving to deepen the river and improve it for purposes of navigation , while large tracts of fertile land were at ...
Page 9
... raised above the level of the interior . Accordingly , the first land reclaimed in the dis- trict was the rich fringe of deposited silt lying along the shores of the Wash , now known as Marshland and CHAP . I. 9 RECLAMATION OF THE FENS .
... raised above the level of the interior . Accordingly , the first land reclaimed in the dis- trict was the rich fringe of deposited silt lying along the shores of the Wash , now known as Marshland and CHAP . I. 9 RECLAMATION OF THE FENS .
Page 10
... raised to keep out the sea are still traceable at Po - Dyke in Marshland , and at various points near the old coast - line . On the inland side of the Fens the Romans are supposed to have constructed another great work of drainage ...
... raised to keep out the sea are still traceable at Po - Dyke in Marshland , and at various points near the old coast - line . On the inland side of the Fens the Romans are supposed to have constructed another great work of drainage ...
Page 12
... raising embankments ; and commissioners of sewers were afterwards appointed , with full powers of local action , after the law and usage of Romney Marsh . In one district we find a public order made that every man should plant with ...
... raising embankments ; and commissioners of sewers were afterwards appointed , with full powers of local action , after the law and usage of Romney Marsh . In one district we find a public order made that every man should plant with ...
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... raise her , sixty English mariners being appointed to attend upon them merely as labourers . In short , we depended for our engineering , even more than we did for our pictures and our music , upon foreigners . J. B. Nearly all the ...
... raise her , sixty English mariners being appointed to attend upon them merely as labourers . In short , we depended for our engineering , even more than we did for our pictures and our music , upon foreigners . J. B. Nearly all the ...
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