The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart: With Reminiscences of the Most Distinguished Characters who Have Appeared in Great Britain, and in Foreign Countries, During the Last Fifty Years. Illustrated by Facsimiles of Two Hundred Autographs ...H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831 - Agriculturists |
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... measures which were then taken , for the benefit of Caithness , under these several heads . 1. Roads . - These are essential for the improvement of any country ; but it was not easy to introduce them into a district where the climate ...
... measures which were then taken , for the benefit of Caithness , under these several heads . 1. Roads . - These are essential for the improvement of any country ; but it was not easy to introduce them into a district where the climate ...
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... measures adopted for promoting the improvement of Scotland in gene- ral , by completing a statistical survey of that country , -by publishing reports of the agricultural state of every district in it , by the establishment of a society ...
... measures adopted for promoting the improvement of Scotland in gene- ral , by completing a statistical survey of that country , -by publishing reports of the agricultural state of every district in it , by the establishment of a society ...
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... measures , which I either proposed myself , or prevailed on the minister to adopt . In 1782 , I was the means of procuring public aid , for re- scuing from the horrors of famine , a tract of country , in the northern parts of Scotland ...
... measures , which I either proposed myself , or prevailed on the minister to adopt . In 1782 , I was the means of procuring public aid , for re- scuing from the horrors of famine , a tract of country , in the northern parts of Scotland ...
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... measure had passed the House of Commons , it was thrown out by the Lords . I exerted myself successfully , to improve the laws regard- ing the highways of the kingdom , and to introduce a better system of police in regard to public ...
... measure had passed the House of Commons , it was thrown out by the Lords . I exerted myself successfully , to improve the laws regard- ing the highways of the kingdom , and to introduce a better system of police in regard to public ...
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... measure , owe the discoveries of a Davy , to the formation of the Royal Institution , which Count Rumford founded , but which was placed on a permanent footing , by an act which I was the means of carrying through Parliament . 9 ...
... measure , owe the discoveries of a Davy , to the formation of the Royal Institution , which Count Rumford founded , but which was placed on a permanent footing , by an act which I was the means of carrying through Parliament . 9 ...
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