Report Concerning The Different Lines Surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslie & Robert Whitworth, Jun. For A Canal, Proposed to be Made Between The Cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and intended to communicate with the Frith of Forth at Leith, and the River Clyde at the Broomie Law; with An Account of a Running Level, Taken for A New Line by Linlithgow and Falkirk,...

1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #47813

No Place, no printer. 1797. 4to. Pp. [1], 12. No map. Modern rebind in brown cloth and quarter brown leather spine with gilt titles. Spine sunned and the leather scuffed, clean and bright throughout. "The scheme to build a canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow, which was intended primarily to supply Edinburgh's growing population with further coal supplies, began in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Ainslie and Whitworth prepared the first survey, producing four possible routes..." Rennie describes each route in detail in this report and suggests improvements and comments on water supply etc. He proposed a fifth route in his report of 1798. This second report is not present here, only the report of 1797.

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