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Title: Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee

Author: Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee

Release Date: June 28, 2007 [eBook #21956]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REPORT OF THE KNARESBROUGH
RAIL-WAY COMMITTEE***

Transcribed from the March 1820 edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

REPORT
OF THE
KNARESBROUGH RAIL-WAY
COMMITTEE.

TO THE
NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN,

Proprietors of Estates,

ON THE ADOPTED LINE;

TO THE
SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE SURVEY,
_AND TO AN ENLIGHTENED AND LIBERAL PUBLIC_,

This Report
OF THE
KNARESBROUGH RAIL-WAY,

(_Originally intended for a Canal_)

IS WITH ALL DUE DEFERENCE AND REGARD
PRESENTED BY THEIR FAITHFUL
AND OBEDIENT SERVANTS,
THE COMMITTEE.

PREFACE.

If the River Nidd and the brooks adjacent, in the vicinity of Knaresbro',
up the valley to Ramsgill, near Pateley-Bridge, and near the adopted
line, had not possessed the many water-falls, and given motion to the
sixty-seven mills which they do;--or had the great landed proprietors, on
the line now adopted been hostile to this all improving project, of this
highly favoured and not less honoured, their native district;--or had the
hand of Nature, when it varied the surface of our earth, no doubt for
wise purposes, and formed those high hills, composed their bowels of any
other substance than what it is;--or had the commercial necessities of
Knaresbro' and its neighbourhood not existed, and the slow progress of
their redemption, compared with others, at one ti