The History of the Ancient and Present State of the Navigation of the Port of King's-Lyn, and of Cambridge: And the Rest of the Trading-towns in Those Parts: and of the Navigable Rivers that Have Their Course Through the Great-level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level. Also the History of the Ancient and Present State of Draining in that Level, in the Province of Marshland, and the Hundreds and Parts Adjacent |
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