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A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation; xhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals. And boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen. With a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts: including observations on the great importance of water communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood. Illustrated with seventeen plates. By R. Fulton, civil engineer.
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.Date: 1796- Books
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A treatise on inland navigation: illustrated with a whole-sheet plan, delineating the course of an intended navigable canal from London to Norwich and Lynn, Through the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, Denoting every Town and Vilage through which it is proposed to pass. With two other plans, to prove the practicability of executing the whole with success: And a Plan for extending the Navigation from Bishop-Stortford to Cambridge, without passing through the Grounds of Parks of Shotgrove or Audley End; by which the Opposition that has been always made by the Noble Owners of those Grounds is obviated, and a direct Conveyance from Cambridge to London, by Water, may be carried into Execution. The Lands through which the Canal is proposed to pass, will double, and in many Parts treble their present Value; and, besides the great Advantage to Land-Holders, its Utility and Benefit will extend to the Trade of these Counties in particular, as well as to the Public at large, by the Means of a cheap and speedy Conveyance for Corn, and all heavy Articles, to Market, by Water, whether for Home Consumption or Exportation. There will be found a vast Saving, when compared to the great Expence of Land Carriage; which is clearly proved in this Treatise. Another important and National Object will arise from this Plan, which is, that the Cities of London and Westminster may be supplied with Corn and Coals, which at all Times will prevent a Scarcity or Monopoly.
Phillips, J. (John), active 1792.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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An answer to the Worcester letter, dated December, 1785.
Date: 1786?]- Books
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The queries proposed by the Company of Undertakers of the Grand Canal, to John Smeaton, Esq; engineer, and F.R.S. Together with his general report thereon. As also, the proceedings of the company had upon the above report, with those of the committee appointed to take the same into consideration.
Grand Canal Company.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic: Containing a complete account of the canals already executed in England, with considerations on those projected. To which are added, practical observations. The whole illustrated with a map of all the canals in England, and other useful plates. By J. Phillips. A new edition corrected. With an addenda, which completes the history to 1792.
Phillips, J. (John), active 1792.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]