Document 48, p 2
| those large and well compacted Masses of Matter that now | ||||
| remain to occupy the places of several of the piers; | ||||
| whereas I have estimated all as without that Aid, in | ||||
| Terms of the Contract.- Perhaps it may not appear at | ||||
| first sight, why the Sum Total of the present Estimate | ||||
| is not equal to the Sum Total of the former Expenditure; | ||||
| but stripping the former Expenditure of all those Articles | ||||
| of Expence, which from their Nature cannot occur in the | ||||
| Restoration of the present Building they will then | ||||
| be alike.- | ||||
| I hope your proposal upon the inclosed will enable | ||||
| You to give Satisfaction to all concerned, and supersede | ||||
| the necessity of the personal Interview that I proposed with | ||||
| Mr Mylne the next Quarter Sessions, which was sent to | ||||
| the Clerk of the Peace before I had sat down to | ||||
| calculate.- | ||||
| I remain with great esteem | ||||
| Sir, | ||||
| Your most humble Servt | ||||
| J. Smeaton | ||||
Note: Letter from John Smeaton to Henry Errington, 10 December 1783, p 2
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