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Drainage - England - Early works to 1800
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The ruinous state of the parish of Manea in the Isle of Ely, with the causes and remedy of it, humbly represented in a letter to Matt. Robinson Morris, Esq; Lord of the Manor of Coveney with Manea. By Thomas Neale, M. A. Rector of the said Parish.
Neale, Thomas, 1692 or 1693-1768.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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Observations, on the present state of the south level of the fens, with a proposed method, For the better drainage of that country, made by the desire of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Townsend, master general of the Ordnance, and the Honourable the Corporation of Bedford Level. By Lieut. Page, (now Sir Thomas Hyde Page, knt.) of the corps of engineers.
Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821.Date: Reprinted in MDCCXCIII, [1793]- Books
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Remarks on certain queries delivered in by the Rev. Mr. Dickinson, at a meeting held at Wisbeach, on Wednesday the 5th of September, 1770. By Richard Dunthorne.
Dunthorne, Richard, 1711-1775.Date: 1770]- Books
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Rules and directions prescribed and made for the pitching and levelling the streets and lanes of the city of London, and liberties, for the more easie and convenient current and conveyance away of the waters thereof; concluded and agreed on by the commissioners and surveyors hereunto authorized and appointed, viz.
Corporation of London. Commissioners of Sewers.Date: 1667- Books
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The report of Mess. John Grundy, Langley Edwards, and John Smeaton, engineers, concerning the present ruinous state and condition, of the River Witham, and the Navigation thereof, from the city of Lincoln, thro' Boston, to it's outfall into the sea ; And of the Fen Lands on both Sides the said River. Together with proposals and schemes for restoring, Improving, and Preserving the said river and Navigation, And also for effecting the Drainage of the said Fen Lands. To which is annexed a plan, and proper estimates of the Expences in performing the several Works recommended for those Purposes.
Date: [1761?]