Gents Mag 1773 pp.221-222
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Gentleman's Magazine 1773 pp.221-222
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Canals in England
... The extent of these canals could hardly have been thought practicable at first setting out. Whoever had suggested the establishment of an inland navigation from Kendal, in Westmoreland, to London, before the taste for inland navigation became the mode, would have been looked upon as a visionary, and his undertaking would have been treated rather as the project of a madman, than the practicable idea of an able engineer: and yet, by the plan exhibited, it appears that the same has been, or will be soon, effected, without such an idea having ever entered into the minds of those by whom it either is, or will be completed. ... Explanation of the Letters in the Plan. / a b mark the Lancaster Canal 72 1/2 [Miles] ... |
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