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borrowed pair of buckskin breeches. He had
to ride all the way on horseback, as railways
were not built until forty-six years afterwards.
His first job was helping to build Somerset
House. Then he built his first bridge across
the Severn.
Soon he became the ablest Civil Engineer in
Great Britain. He was the first President of
the Institution of Civil Engineers.
He built 1,200 bridges in Scotland alone.
He built canals and aqueducts and harbours.
He became the greatest of all British bridge-
builders. He received many honours, and when
he died he was buried in Westminster Abbey
among the Kings. He had a resolute Purpose,
with a strong will behind it, and he made his
boyhood dream come true.
In 1830 a young man of twenty-two stood
in a huge crowd in Manchester and watched
the ‘‘“ Rocket” make its first trip on the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway. He was
then unknown, but in that great crowd there
was no man who had as clever a brain as he.
His name was James Nasmyth.
His father was a Scottish artist. He, too,
would very likely have become an artist if he
had not seen that first railway engine. He went

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