 | History - 1793
...of the principal ones (lightly. He made the river Calder navigable; a work that required great (kill and Judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river; he planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country .either to the... | |
 | English literature - 1793 - 548 pages
...of the principal ones (lightly. He made the river CaMer navigable ja work that required great fkill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river ( he planned and attended the execution of the great Canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the... | |
 | 1793 - 526 pages
...A few only can be mentioned : he made the river Calder navigable ; a work that required great fldll and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river. He planned and attended the execution of the great Canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country, either to the... | |
 | 1798 - 614 pages
...engaged in. A very few of them however may be just mentioned in this place.—He made the river Colder navigable ; a work that required great skill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river.—He planned, and attended for some time, the execution of the great, or Forth and Clyde, canal... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...full business as a civil engineer, performed many works of general utility. He made the rivtr Calder navigable, a work that required great skill and judgment,...impetuous floods in that river. He planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country cither to the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 786 pages
...many works of general utility. He made the river Caldcr navigable; a work that required great (kill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river : He planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, (See CANAL, N° 9; and FORTH, N° 4 ) and having brought... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...full business :is a civil engineer, performed many works of general utility. He made the river Calder navigable, a work that required great skill and judgment,...impetuous floods in that river. He planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 382 pages
...full business as a civil engineer, performed many works of general utility. He made the river Calder navigable, a work that required great skill and judgment,...impetuous floods in that river. He planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...he was engaged in ; I shall touch upon some of the principal ones slightly. He made the river Calder navigable; a work that required great skill and judgment,...impetuous floods in that river ; he planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 936 pages
...full business as a civil engineer, performed many works of general utility. He made the river Calder navigable ; a work that required great skill and judgment,...impetuous floods in that river : He planned and attended, Г 408 ] SME Smnion. tended the exécution of the great ranal in Scotland for l— — y • ' conveying... | |
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He made the river Calder navigable; a work that required great skill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river ; he planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to... 