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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