Document 66 p19
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| Extent of any other Man’s Capacity: It frequently happens that what | ||||
| will fail the Mind of one Man, will be readily effected by another; but | ||||
| voluntarily | ||||
| he cannot be induced, |
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| the remains of his Reputation as an Artist, by undertaking what he | ||||
| has sufficient Reason now to think either impracticable in itself, | ||||
| or so very hazardous in its Effect, and Permanency, that no Person | ||||
| thinking as he does, would chuse to engage therein. | ||||
| 6th Interrogatory This Deponent having in answer to the | ||||
| preceeding fully explained himself upon this Interrogatory, he thinks | ||||
| it sufficient to say, that he sees no Reason to expect a better Success | ||||
| in a future, than with the former Bridges, while the Plan, and | ||||
| Place remains the same; nor has he yet been informed of any other | ||||
| Situation in the Neighbourhood of Hexham, that he has now any | ||||
| reason to think preferable. | ||||
| Last Interrogatory. In Answer to this last Interrogatory; this | ||||
| Deponent believes, that it will not only be satisfactory to the disinterested; | ||||
| but of real Use to the contending Parties, to know this Deponent’s Reason | ||||
| why he esteems the building of a Bridge near Hexham, now as | ||||
| so | ||||
| attended with ⁁ much greater difficulty, and hazard, than he had reason | ||||
| to think it in the Year 1776: And it because he is now thoroughly | ||||
| acquainted with certain Facts, that it was impossible for him then | ||||
| to be acquainted with, or indeed form the least Conception of: for | ||||
| had he then been acquainted with these Facts, he certainly should have | ||||
| judged this Project as difficult, hazardous and impracticable at that | ||||
| time as he does now. | ||||
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Note: Mr Smeaton's Replies to Interrogatories p19; line down document's left hand margin
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