CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 170

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we're superintended by the English.

overeers

who had been placed. on half- wages for that period

the.

L

Cople.

It was necessary resumption of the work, that. further advance should be called for, for the Reasons

Reasons fully detailed in- Report and Estimate No 12 of 1845,

and

sa

d the sum of £382. 16. was sanctione accordingly. This Broad when completed Shope will be of much benefit to the community at large; in fact it has

in it's unfinished.

proved so already

state; it has been however available

for horses as far as Pokefolum, for :some time, and from aberdeen the line is perfectly

perfectly practicable for

pedestrians; to the inhabitants of which place, and the neighbouring Valley of Wrongkong, it will be found of great

utility, enabling them to bring produce to market in a

their

more direct

and

and certain

anamer

137

than has been

hitherto obliged to be adopted, and as

the Road opens up the

effective

ntry

country in a

very

manner, it will I have

of encouraging.

doubt be the means,

agriculture, both

ong the Burchean

and native inhabitants -

In the Report and Estimate

prepared for the Road from Tytain to stanley, it will be perceived that I

have

recommended stone arches the whole line, and it may

why

be asked

that mode of Construction of the

bridges

FILOVe

not.

on the other lines. adopted as being

e permanent than a platform of Wood; the reason of this is, that on the other lines I had. no data whon which to find the ___ quantity

lity of Water passing de ring- heavy floods, and therefore. I considered it safer to give the greatest possible I of waterway, and so

constmeted

do te

the

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