Capitolo 13
elegant parapet to the side is both completely composed of iron.
There would not clearly be, today, nothing extraordinary in the use of
such material for such purpose; but Telford was the first engineer
to see the iron value in this respect and the Pont Cysylltau
aqueduct was one of the more first jobs in which he applied the new one
material to these unusual uses. Such footstep is everything the more extraordinary,
because his/her own education of Telford had lain completely in what can fairly be
called the age" of "stone of the engineering English; while his/her disposition
it is probable that predilections as a stonemason would certainly have done him rather
you neglect the value of the material of novel. But Telford was a man that
you/he/she could rise superior to such small accidents of the habit or training; and
there is no other engineer to whom the increase of as a matter of fact the
age of "present iron" in to plan job it is more directly and immediately
being attributed that to him.
In the meantime, the pioneer of Eskdale didn't forget his/her mother. For years him
you/he/she had written to her, in hand_ of _print continually so that the letters
you/he/she would be read more easily by his/her elderly eyes; he had sent his/her money in
full proportion to his means; and he was taken every possible care to
the face declining years is comfortable as his/her altered circumstances
you/he/she could quickly do them. And now, in the mean of this great and
I work responsible, he found time to "unloaded" to Eskdale (very different
"racing down" from that that us we can serve as the London and
Northerly Western Platform), once more to see his elderly mother before her
dead. Thing a reunion that is due to be, among the old poor widow of
the Eskdales conduct, and his succeeded child, the provincial surveyor of
Shropshire and engineer of the great one and the important Channel of Ellesmere!
While Telford was busily working on his/her marvelous channel, he had many of it
other schemes to perform of as soon as less importance, in connection with