The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales: Adapted to the Most Recent Statistical Arrangements, and Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, with a Complete County-atlas of England ... Maps of Wales, and an Appendix, Containing ... the Census of 1841, Том 3A. Fullarton & Company, 1851 |
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... passed in 1720 , so that vessels of 60 to 70 tons bur- then could pass up to Manchester : but a most gigantic work ... passing through Bar- ton , where the Duke of Bridgewater's canal is carried over its surface by means of a grand ...
... passed in 1720 , so that vessels of 60 to 70 tons bur- then could pass up to Manchester : but a most gigantic work ... passing through Bar- ton , where the Duke of Bridgewater's canal is carried over its surface by means of a grand ...
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... passed through the new cut , and may haul south - eastward for the mcoring - buoys , where twenty feet water is ... passing down through the wood and iron , having nuts on the under side , all boring or cutting into the main support of ...
... passed through the new cut , and may haul south - eastward for the mcoring - buoys , where twenty feet water is ... passing down through the wood and iron , having nuts on the under side , all boring or cutting into the main support of ...
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... passing round to the north of Orinskirk , and southwardly to Aintree , near which its course is changed from south - east to north - west , and again to south - west and south - east , by Forde and Bootle , to Liverpool . The length of ...
... passing round to the north of Orinskirk , and southwardly to Aintree , near which its course is changed from south - east to north - west , and again to south - west and south - east , by Forde and Bootle , to Liverpool . The length of ...
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... passed in 1830 : other acts connected with it were passed in 1834 and 1838. The original capital of the company was £ 150,000 : present capi . tal £ 220,000 . This railway runs from Cowley - hill colliery to Runcorn - Gap on the Mersey ...
... passed in 1830 : other acts connected with it were passed in 1834 and 1838. The original capital of the company was £ 150,000 : present capi . tal £ 220,000 . This railway runs from Cowley - hill colliery to Runcorn - Gap on the Mersey ...
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... passed , however , the effect is very striking . The directors , it is said , intend to establish a telegraph from one end to the other , which will probably be a pneumatic telegraph . No abatement of speed is made in passing through ...
... passed , however , the effect is very striking . The directors , it is said , intend to establish a telegraph from one end to the other , which will probably be a pneumatic telegraph . No abatement of speed is made in passing through ...
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Сторінка 259 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man...
Сторінка 259 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in...
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Сторінка 204 - ... and, in the west, two castles well fortified. Further westward, about two miles, on the banks of the river, was the royal palace (at Westminster), ' an incomparable structure, guarded by a wall and bulwarks.' Between this and the city was a continued suburb, mingled with large and beautiful gardens and orchards belonging to the citizens, who were themselves every where known, and respected, above all others, for their ' civil demeanour, their goodly apparel, their table, and their discourse.
Сторінка 344 - ... chiefly on the tops of natural hills, and which can be attributed to none of the various people who have ever dwelt in the adjacent country, except to the ancient Britons, although, indeed, the subsequent conquerors, Romans, Saxons, and Danes, and even the Normans, have, on certain emergencies, made use of them on account of their great original strength ; and although erroneous and hasty conjectures, and even the crude reports of the country, have often called them Roman, Danish, or Saxon, yet...
Сторінка 335 - ... the mayor, jurats, and commonalty of the king's town and parish of Maidstone...
Сторінка 230 - Bridge was 5 inches, and this was thought a very trifling sinking. The total width of the water-way between the arches is 690 feet, at all times of the tide ; which is 66 feet more than the old bridge afforded at high-water mark. The length of the bridge, from the extremities of the abutments, is 928 feet, within the abutments ; 782 feet. The roadway is 53 feet, between the parapets, being 8 feet wider than the old bridge, and 1 1 feet wider than any other bridge on the Thames.
Сторінка 221 - I should vex myself all the day long with the fantastic mixture of every style of architecture and decoration — the absence of all pure taste — the total want of feeling of measure and proportion. Even the great entrance-hall does not answer its object, because the principal staircase is on one side, and an immense space, scarcely lighted, seems to extend before you as you enter, to no purpose whatever.