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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with ... - Página 474
1851
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An Account of the Operations Carried Out for Accomplishing a ..., Volumen2

William Mudge, Isaac Dalby, Thomas Colby - 1801 - 690 páginas
...annually allowed for it being inadequate to the execution of so great a design in the best manner, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than a very accurate map of a country. It would, however, have been completed, and many of its imperfections no doubt remedied; but the breaking...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volumen4

John Playfait - 1822 - 550 páginas
...instruments of an inferior kind, and the sum annually allowed being very inadequate to so great a design, it is. rather to be considered. as a magnificent military sketch, than as an accurate map of a country. At the conclusion of the peace of 1?63, it came under the consideration...
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The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...

John Playfair - 1822 - 552 páginas
...instruments of an inferior kind, and the sum annually allowed being very inadequate to so great a design, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than as an accurate map of a country. At the conclusion of the peace of 1763, it came under the consideration...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen95

1852 - 650 páginas
...Castle. General Roy himself says that the survey ' having been carried on with inferior instru' ments, and the sum allowed having been very inadequate for...military sketch than a very accurate map of a country.' With all its defects, however, the survey had great merit, and had it been published in the original...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volumen3

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1857 - 552 páginas
...employed in the service several young officers of engineers, among others, Mr (afterwards Major-General) Roy. The survey, which was limited to the mainland,...bridges, they were discovered after considerable search. Arrowsmith's map was founded on Roy's survey of the mainland, and many other materials which he deemed...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen140

1865 - 838 páginas
...inferiority of the instruments used, and the inadequacy of the annual grants pro- ' vided for the service, "it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." It was interrupted by the breaking out, in 1755, of another of our then • intermittent wars with...
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The Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom

Thomas Pilkington White - 1886 - 222 páginas
...inferiority of the instruments used, and the inadequacy of the annual grants provided for the service, "it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." It was interrupted by the breaking out, in 1755, of another of our then intermittent wars with France...
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History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volumen2

Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 598 páginas
...to the inferiority of the instruments available and the inadequacy of the money grants, saying — " It is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." The war with France caused the work to be interrupted in 1755, and it was not resumed for a period...
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History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volumen2

Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 612 páginas
...of the instruments available and the inadequacy of the money grants, saying— " It is rather to bo considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." Early in October, 1783, Comte d'Adhemar, the French Am-bassador at the Court of St. James, forwarded...
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When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason ...

Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 páginas
...Scotland, drawn by army surveyor William Roy after the Battle of Culloden of 1746, was, in his own words, "rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than a very accurate map of the country." 17 The maps of Bihar and Bengal in India drawn by Major James Rennell in the 1770s and...
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