Notes: | "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 ... ." "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 sucess ... ." "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 ... ." Hanson 4939 Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, [1974]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 7413.1)
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