A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting 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

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Main Author: Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815.
Contributors: Washington, George, 1732-1799
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London. : Published by I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1796.
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