A General History of Inland Navigation, Foreign and Domestic: Containing a Complete Account of the Canals Already Executed in England, with Considerations on Those ProjectedJ. Taylor and C. and R. Baldwin, 1803 - 598 ページ |
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advantages AMEND aqueduct authorised to raise banks barges boats book of reference branch breadth bridge Brindley Bristol Brook called the canal canal company canal navigation carried clauses Clyde coals collateral cuts communication Company of Proprietors completed conveyance conveyed course Coventry canal deemed a public deviate Dudley canal Duke Ellesmere canal empowered to raise enacted engineer erected execution expense feet fall feet rise finished Grand Junction canal Hull inland navigation intended join lake lake Ladoga land carriage length Liverpool locks London Manchester manufactures mentioned miles mill Monmouthshire canal navi navigable canal navigable cut Oxford canal parish parliament persons preamble public act rail-way recited act reservoir river Avon river Mersey river Severn river Soar river Thames river Trent river Weaver road side sluices Staffordshire stone subscribers supply thence thereof tolls tonnage tons towing-paths town trade tunnel undertaking vessels wanted wharfs whole Wilden yards
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316 ページ - If such labor and services be done and performed and completed between the first day of November and the first day of May...
xi ページ - Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that account the greatest of all improvements. They encourage the cultivation of the remote, which must always be the most extensive circle of the country. They are advantageous to the town, by breaking down the monopoly of the country in its neighbourhood.
398 ページ - An Act to enable the company of proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey...
390 ページ - Act, 1831,'" certain persons were incorporated by the name of " The Company of Proprietors of the...
313 ページ - ... and again to raise the same to such sums as they shall think proper, not exceeding the sums herein mentioned, as often as it shall be deemed necessary for the interests of the said navigation.
314 ページ - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
388 ページ - G. 3., the then proprietors and undertakers were incorporated by the name of " The Company of Proprietors of the " Mersey and Irwell Navigation," and invested with the same powers as were given by the former act.
28 ページ - Devol is the modern name of Deavolis. It is situated on a river of the same name. which falls into the Apsos five miles below Berat. The pass is now called the Boghaz of Tzangon. Achrida and Deavolis were the two cities which commanded the two roads leading from the Adriatic to Thessalonica. Anna Comn.
106 ページ - A gentleman of eminence was accordingly called in ; who, being conducted to the place where it was intended that the aqueduct should be made, ridiculed the attempt; and when the height and dimensions were communicated to him, he exclaimed, " I have often heard of castles in the air, but never before was shown where any of them were to be erected.
491 ページ - Canal from, or from some Place near Pontnewynydd, into the River Usk, at or near the Town of Newport, and a Collateral Cut or Canal from the same, at or near a place called...