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... tion works at Gwydir - Letter to Sir John Wynn Sir Hugh's death - His will - His character - 83-102 CHAPTER V. CAPTAIN PERRY STOPPAGE OF DAGENHAM BREACH . Breaches in the Thames embankments between London and Greenwich -between ...
... tion works at Gwydir - Letter to Sir John Wynn Sir Hugh's death - His will - His character - 83-102 CHAPTER V. CAPTAIN PERRY STOPPAGE OF DAGENHAM BREACH . Breaches in the Thames embankments between London and Greenwich -between ...
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... tion and fertility of resources - His improvements in machinery for silk manufacture -Employed on mills , machines , and pumps at the Potteries - His original contrivances - Improved mill for Wedgwood , at Burslem - Suggests flint ...
... tion and fertility of resources - His improvements in machinery for silk manufacture -Employed on mills , machines , and pumps at the Potteries - His original contrivances - Improved mill for Wedgwood , at Burslem - Suggests flint ...
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Samuel Smiles. and do suffer the same to decay ( after convenient admoni- tion ) , whereby the water entereth and drowneth up the country , are by a certain ancient custom apprehended , con- demned , and staked in the breach , where they ...
Samuel Smiles. and do suffer the same to decay ( after convenient admoni- tion ) , whereby the water entereth and drowneth up the country , are by a certain ancient custom apprehended , con- demned , and staked in the breach , where they ...
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... tion . Amongst those early speculators in English drainage we find the names of the Valkenburgh family , the Van Peenens , the Vernatti , Andrew Boccard , and John Corsellis . Of the whole number of shareholders amongst whom the lands ...
... tion . Amongst those early speculators in English drainage we find the names of the Valkenburgh family , the Van Peenens , the Vernatti , Andrew Boccard , and John Corsellis . Of the whole number of shareholders amongst whom the lands ...
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... tion , the country round about had been " full of wandering * R. Ansbie writes the Duke of Buckingham from Tickill Castle , under date the 21st August , 1628 , as follows : - " What has happened betwixt Mr. Vermuyden's friends and ...
... tion , the country round about had been " full of wandering * R. Ansbie writes the Duke of Buckingham from Tickill Castle , under date the 21st August , 1628 , as follows : - " What has happened betwixt Mr. Vermuyden's friends and ...
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