Letter from John Rennie, London to George Raisbeck, Stockton-upon-Tees

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Correspondence between Leonard Raisbeck and John Rennie regarding the survey of the Stockton & Darlington canal or railway
Made:
1812-07-11
part of archive:
Leonard Raisbeck Archive
maker:
Raisbeck, Leonard
Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck
Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck

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Letter from John Rennie, London to Leonard Raisbeck
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Rennie praises the survey (for a canal) undertaken in 1768 by Whitworth saying ‘I have taken many surveys after him but seldom found an error’, but wonders if a more northerly route would be ‘capable of embracing more objects than the line Whitworth surveyed’. He outlines several places that might be brought closer to the line if the route is altered.

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