James Brindley and the Early Engineers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from James Brindley and the Early Engineers

The soil Of England is sufficiently fertile; but it has been made so principally by the industry Of its people. A large portion Of it, and that the most fertile, has been reclaimed and embanked from the sea. The two thousand square miles Of land in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, forming the Great Level Of the Fens, would, but for human skill and industry, be lying under water, the haunt Of wild birds.

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