Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 305
osecution of the enterprise, there was, of course, muchopposition offered by the various interests involved, and the inquiresbefore the Committees of each House of Parliament were unusually pro-tracted, for they extended in all to 175 days, and the cost to the pro-moters is said to have amounted to… … Fig. 133.— Western Portion. Fig. 134.—Eastern Portion. Figs. 133 and 134.—Ma^) of the Mattchester Ship Canal. 264 THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. the soundness of the undertaking on the part of the Lancashire capitalists.But the promoters submitted the whole scheme to a representative com-mittee, who…
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