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a stale nmv as on the 1 day on which it was completed. 

 Although the Barton aqueduct has since been thrown 

 into the shade by the vastly greater works of modern 



BARTON AQUEDUCT. 

 [By Percival Skelton, after his original Drawing.] 



engineers, it was unquestionably a very bold and inge- 

 nious enterprise, if we take into account the time at which 

 it was erected. Humble though it now appears, it \\ as 

 the parent of the magnificent aqueducts of Rennie and 

 Telford, and of the viaducts of Stephenson and Brunei, 

 >\ liich rival the greatest works of any age or country. 

 The embankments formed across the low grounds on 



rard'ul employment <>!' puddling that 

 the tiltnitiim <>!' rlic water of canals 

 into the lu'iu'lilioin-iim l<>\vcr lands 



\vhicli they pass 



tually prevented. 



In- effec- 



