The new cut canal, intended for improving the navigation of the city of Chester, ... compared with the Welland, alias Spalding River, now silted up, and Deeping-Fens adjacent, now drowned. ...

People / Organizations

• Thomas Badeslade (Author)
• Roger Adams ("printed by")

Imprint

Chester: printed by Roger Adams, [1736]

Publication year

1736-1736

ESTC No.

T142861

Grub Street ID

190030

Description

22p.,plates ; 2⁰

Note

Preface signed and dated: Thomas Badeslade. March 25. 1736.

P. 16 ends with an advertisement for Mr. Wright, mathematical instrument maker of London; p. [17] begins: 'Philosophical and mathematical reasons, humbly offer'd to the consideration of the publick, to prove that the present works, .. to recover and preserve the navigation of the River Dee, must intirely destroy the same. With some remarks on Mr. Badeslade's Reasons, &c. thereon', with the imprint following: "Chester: printed for Roger Adams".