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Excerpt from A Manual of Civil Engineering
The third part, so far as the details of the designing and execution of works are concerned, consists, to a great extent, of references to the fimt and second parts, its special object being to explain those principles which are peculiar to each class of great works of engineering, and which regulate the general plan of such works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
