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RENNIE, John.

RENNIE, John.
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Report concerning the different lines surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslie & Robert Whitworth, Jun. for a Canal, proposed to be made between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and intended to communicate with the Frith[!] of Forth at Leith, and the river Clyde at the Broomie Law; with an account of a running level, taken for a new line by Linlithgow and Falkirk, by John Rennie, Civil Engineer, and F.R.S. Edin. [No place or printer,] 1797. [Bound with:]
RENNIE, John. Report concerning the practicability and expence of the lines surveyed by Messrs. John Ainslie & Robert Whitworth, Jun. for a Canal, proposed to be made between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow…with the improvements that have been made on these lines; and also concerning the practicability and expence of a new line…

[No place or printer,] 1798

2 works in 1 volume, 4to, 1 leaf + 12 pages; 1 leaf + 27 pages, 1 large folding and partly hand-coloured plan on two joined sheets (ruled border cropped along bottom edge). Modern marbled boards.
SOLE EDITIONS. “The scheme to build a canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow, which was intended primarily to supply Edinburgh’s growing population with further coal supplies, began in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Ainslie and Whitworth prepared the first survey, producing four possible routes…” In this report, Rennie meticulously describes each route, suggesting improvements and commenting on water supply, locks, etc. He himself then puts forward a fifth route, described in detail in his report of 1798. “However, with the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars the whole project was shelved until 1814” (Weinreb catalogue 50). Skempton 1145 and 1146.

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