Considerations on the Public Expediency, or a Bridge From One Part of Boston to the Other (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But of all the Oppofition hitherto marfhalled againfi: public improvement, none has been fo difiinguiflled for violence and perfeverance, as that which has been excited by a propofal to. Build a Bridge from one part of Bolton to the other, in a place which, though not lefs entitled to the benefits of its nat ural pofition, is more remote than any other, from this necellary accommodation. Yet it is believed that no bridge has been granted over a navigable fiream, by which fo few perfons will be affected, and in fofmall a degree and none except Charles River bridge to which public Opinion has been more favor able. Could the fcattered inhabitants of the banks of any one great river over which a bridge is now built, have cluttered into one fireet, they might have(4)

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