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RefNoCLP/17/62
LevelItem
TitlePaper, dissertation concerning roads by Robert Phillips
Date[1736]
DescriptionTreatise in three parts:
- details of how roads have deteriorated by art with details of the soil of London
- details of how roads have deteriorated by nature
- details of how the roads can be mended
Mentions Tyburn, Kilburn Road, and Baldock Lane in Hertfordshire
Original and engraved figures in RBO/20/17 at page 132

Read to the Royal Society on 27 January and 3 February 1736
LanguageEnglish
Extent24pp
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordRBO/20/17
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