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Canals - Scotland - Early works to 1800

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    The second report of John Smeaton, engineer, and F.R.S. Touching the practicability and expence of making a navigable canal from the river Forth to the river Clyde, and thereby joining the East Sea to the west, for vessels of greater burden, and draught of water, than those which were the subject of his first report. With a plan of the canal. Addressed to the noblemen and gentlemen subscribers for carrying the said canal into execution.

    Smeaton, John, 1724-1792. | Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]

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