fun work, it is with defecully and danger
From
that any work can be surveyed or superintences
in the
Rafird.
and
efficient
t manver that it would be at home, or in a more temperate climate, and it is from that cause alone, particularly as I have no other assistant than MrPoper that Scannot execute
the orders and send surveys and belimater
ive
the
detailed and
and satisfactory
mamej
in which services of the kind should be
given.
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were
In the first Estimates that we made for the Roads from Victoria to Aberdeen,
Tylam respectively, I was induced.
and
to make the Estimates without the......
necessary Surveys and levelling teenable me to judge of the nature of the ground, the actual amount of cutting ausfilling and the detail of the drains and bridges,
consequently the only mode I had of
le charge
and
making
the Estimate
Certain detme
a
in per good for the Construction,
and
and a
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rough Estimate for an imagined
number of Bridges
and Drains. On each
of the Roads it soon became apparent that the Estimates had been formed too-
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low; the have been detailed in the supplementary Reports and Estimates prepared for the Completion of those seperate
which have led to this
It was found impossible to execute the Work by Contract; as will be proved by the following extract from Report and Estimate No 9 of 18.45.
In further illustration of the " uncertainty of estimating such work as
• the present. I may me
mention the Result
" of the attempts that were made to let "Similar work, and a portion of this "work by contract. The work of forming
the
Locme
new streets and Roads in the Town
" of Victoria, executed by day work in the
" Autumn of 1844. Fendered for by
small lengthe
" Several individuals in smar
the