The new cut canal, intended for improving the navigation of the city of Chester : with the low lands adjacent to the river Dee, compared with the Welland, alias Spalding river, now silted up, and deeping-fens adjacent, now drowned : also arguments to prove that as the River Welland and Deeping Fenns were destroyed by imbanking salt marshes.
| Author/creator | Badeslade, Thomas |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [England?] : [publisher not identified], [1736] (Chester : R. Adams) |
| Description | 22 pages : map |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| General note | "To which is added, reasons and experiments, shewing why a flat and fenny country cannot be drained thro' a sewer that has but four inches declivity in each mile ... ." |
| General note | "With a defence of those gentlemen who have been undertakers to drain deeping-fenns, against the reflection of Mr. Grundy in which is shew'd the true cause why the several undertakings have not had lasting success ... ." |
| General note | "Also experiments, and reasons agreeing with Sir Isaac Newton's theory of the tides, relating to the practice of taking a level by the high-water-mark of a spring-tide ... ." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 07413.1. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |
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