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Excerpt from British Canals: Is Their Resuscitation Practicable?
Theoretically, there is much to be said in favour of canal restoration, and the advocates thereof have not been backward in the Vigorous and frequent ventilation of their ideas. Practically, there are other all-important considerations which ought not to be overlooked, though as to these the British Public have hitherto heard very little. As a matter of detail, also, it is desirable to see whether the theory that the decline of our canals is due to their having been captured and strangled by the railway companies - a theory which many people seem to believe in as implicitly as they do, say, in the Multiplication Table - is really capable of proof, or whether that decline is not, rather, to be attributed to wholly different causes.
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Theoretically, there is much to be said in favour of canal restoration, and the advocates thereof have not been backward in the Vigorous and frequent ventilation of their ideas. Practically, there are other all-important considerations which ought not to be overlooked, though as to these the British Public have hitherto heard very little. As a matter of detail, also, it is desirable to see whether the theory that the decline of our canals is due to their having been captured and strangled by the railway companies - a theory which many people seem to believe in as implicitly as they do, say, in the Multiplication Table - is really capable of proof, or whether that decline is not, rather, to be attributed to wholly different causes.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Edwin A. Pratt
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ISBN - 9781528070393
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 199
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ISBN - 9781332488933
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