I'LL TAK THE LEIGH ROAD
[HIGHLANDS.]
Fifth Report of the Commissioners for Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.
[London, Hansard, 1811.]
Folio, pp. 67, [1], with a large folding engraved map (c. 640 x 530 mm), the proposed new roads and bridges hand-coloured; title-page slight dusty and stained, else a very good, crisp, uncut, disbound (traces of original wrapper to spine).
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Fifth Report of the Commissioners for Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.
A rare Parliamentary report on the construction of roads and bridges in Scotland, with a fine map by Aaron Arrowsmith showing the roads already constructed or under contract (in red) and the roads under consideration (in green).
Following an inspection by Thomas Telford in 1802 the Commission of Highlands Roads and Bridges was established in 1803, and supervised the construction of the Caledonian Canal and the completion of 920 miles of road and 120 bridges over the next twenty years. The Report comprises accounts of construction since the fourth Report (1809), memorials and applications for new roads (with a report by Telford regarding the Rannoch Road), and financial accounts.
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