Excerpt from A Biographical Sketch of John Childe, Civil Engineer: From Genl; C. B. Stuart's Biography of American Engineers The Mobile and Ohio road has been locatedentirely free of such derangements, consulting first of all the general good; miles of surveyed lines have been run to determine the route, lowest grades, and least cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.