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DRAWINGS OF THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, 



BY JOHN C. BROWNE, 

 With Topographical and Descriptive Accounts, by John Britton, F.S.A. 



The present Part contains a Map of the Line of Railway hy Clieffins, antl nine Drawings of the following subjects :— Excavation anj Building Retaining. Wall ; 

 Camden Town; Watlbrd Embanknient ; Colne Viaauct ; Obli(jue-brid|^'e, Box-iiioi.r ; View, near Berlihauipsteud; Wolverton Viaduct; A Working-shaft, Kilsby Tunnel ■ 

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VALUABLE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS FOR 



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A COLLECTION of WORKING 

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 Large Drawings; Working Drawings of West Brom- 

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 ings of Stoclqiort Church, of Hyldersley Chapel, of 

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Mr. Goodwin was well known as a man of first-rate 

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THE ARCANUM. — Comprising a 

 Concise Theory of Practicable, Elementaiy, and 

 Definitive Geometry ; exhibiting the various Transmu- 

 tations of Supertices and Solids ; obtaining also their 

 actual capacity by the Matliematical Scale, inclutling 

 solutions to the yet unanswered Problems vi the 

 Ancients. By Jopin Bennett, Engineer. 



On Saturday, the 5th of January, 1839, will be ready iu 

 one vohune, octavo, with upwards of ItiU original Cop- 

 per Plate Problems. Price ld«. 



Also ready, by the same Author, the Second edition of 

 the MiLLWiuGHTsandENGiNEEn's Pocket Dikectok. 



" A very useful work." — London' Architectural Ma. 

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THE THAMES TUNNEL, Entrance 

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 side of the River, is open to the public every day, (ex- 

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 lengtli, and completed to within a distance of less than 90 

 feet of low water mark on the Middlesex shore. 

 By Order, 

 J. CHARLIE U, Clerk to the Company, 

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THE REPERTORY of PATENT In- 

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 \iA. XL, will be published on the First of January, 1839, 

 jirice 3jf., and contains Specifications of the following 

 I'atents, with Engravings; — 



Cooke and W^heats tone's, for giving Signals and Sound- 

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Gifiord's, for Improvements in Paddle-wheels. 



Finlayson 8, for Improvements iu Hiurows. 



W'alker's, for Apparatus to be used in Cleansing Beer, 

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Desgrand's, for a new Pulpy Product to be used in 

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Stephens" and Nash's, for Colouring Matter, and for 

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Expired Patents and New Patents. 



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 also the Wiirknuin's Prices fur labour only ; the most 

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 of t\vo thousand useful aud important Memorandums and 

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By W. LAXTON, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. 



Thirteenth Edition, with considerable additions and 

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COURSE OF MILITARY SUR- 

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TO architects.— ROE'S Patent 

 Self-Supidying Basin, when fixed upon the Valve 

 or Pan W^ater closets, makes them nuich more simple 

 and cloanly than any other Closet. 



F. R. solicits the inspection of the Profession to some 

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 Manufactory from Camberwell, as »oon as the repairs 

 are completed. 



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