I paid 15/. in a single year for repairs of carriage-springs on the pavement of London; and I now glide without noise or fracture, on wooden pavements. I can walk, by the assistance of the police, from one end of London to the other, without molestation;... The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With an Introductory History of ... - עמוד 76 מאת Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 331 דפים תצוגה מלאה -
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