The new cut canal, intended for improving the navigation of the city of Chester : with the low lands adjacent to the river Dee, compared with the Welland, alias Spalding river, now silted up, and deeping-fens adjacent, now drowned : also arguments to prove that as the River Welland and Deeping Fenns were destroyed by imbanking salt marshes.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[England?] :
[publisher not identified],
[1736]
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| Series: | Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | "To which is added, reasons and experiments, shewing why a flat and fenny country cannot be drained thro' a sewer that has but four inches declivity in each mile ... ." "With a defence of those gentlemen who have been undertakers to drain deeping-fenns, against the reflection of Mr. Grundy in which is shew'd the true cause why the several undertakings have not had lasting success ... ." "Also experiments, and reasons agreeing with Sir Isaac Newton's theory of the tides, relating to the practice of taking a level by the high-water-mark of a spring-tide ... ." Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. Goldsmiths'-Kress number 07413.1. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 22 pages : map. |