The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 207
other serious demand upontheir purses, when they were agreeably surprized by receiving a pro-posal from Mr. William Hughes, then a contractor upon the CaledonianCanal, to protect the town lands effectually, and that at no cost what-ever to the town, as he required no farther remuneration than… … The contractors mode of operation was extremely simple, as maybe seen by the sketch : the beach ascended from low to high water-mark at an inclination of about 1 in 9, and then rose abruptly about3 ft. to the level of the carse lands. Having removed the old wall,the contractor considered that…
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