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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Formation of Railways: Containing the Most Approved Systems of Excavating, Haulage, Embanking, Permanent Waylaying, &C. &C.; Also, the Method of Estimating the Gross Load and Useful Effect Produced by Mechanical or Other Motive Power Upon a Level, and Upon Any Inclination
The object of this Work is to give a practical exposition of that now popular and all-important subject, railways, a medium of internal communi cation which has been brought so rapidly forward to its present comparative state of perfection by the united efforts of the British nation.
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