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Excerpt from Practical Suggestions on the General Improvement of the Navigation of the Shannon, Between Limerick and the Atlantic: And More Particularly of That Part of It Named by Pilots, the Narrows; With Some Remarks Intended to Create a Doubt of the Fairness of Not Keeping Faith With the Irish Roman Catholics, After They Had Been Lured Into a Surrender of Limerick, (Their Princip
ON the evening when I took my seat as an Associate M ember of the Institution of Civil Engineers, I signed in your presence 9. Declaration, that I would always, to the utmost of my power, endeavour to promote the objects for which the Society had been founded; and I now, without at all identifying you with my Politics, beg permission to dedicate to you the following Pages; that, at the same time when I make an humble effort to fulfil my Pledge to the Institution, I may, as an Irishman, have the gratification of publicly expressing my sense of the benefit you have conferred on my Coun try, by increasing, to the extent that you have increased it, the rapidity of communication be tween Ireland and England.
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