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Industrial Biography

CHAPTER IV
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The writer then proceeds at some length to vindicate the Captain's famous work and the propositions contained in it.
[20] This work (especially with the plates) is excessively rare.

There is a copy of it in perfect condition in the Grenville Library, British Museum.
[21] Dr.Nash, in his History of Worcestershire, has thrown some doubts upon this story; but Mr.Green, in his Historical Antiquities of the city, has made a most able defence of Yarranton's statement (vol.i.

9, in foot-note)..


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