CHAP. V. AS ENGINEER OF THK ELLESMERE CANAL. 



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" besides the actual labour which necessarily attends so 

 extensive a public work, there are contentions, jealousies, 

 and prejudices, stationed like gloomy sentinels from one 

 extremity of the line to the other. But, as I have heard 

 my mother say that an honest man might look the Devil 

 in the face without being afraid, so we must just trudge 

 along in the old way." l 



1 Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Lano-holin, dated Shrewsbury, 3rd November 





Mi? MAGDALEN, BhIUGEXOK J i_i 

 [By Percival Skeltoa ] 



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