The ghost of Joseph Robson, engineer, requests that his art of making rivers, creeks, and harbours, more commodious for shipping, &c. may be re-published as printed in his book called the British Mars, in MDCCLXIII this spectre also informs the public, that armies of ghosts are preparing to visit the Tyne and its conservators, preparatory to which his art is here laid before the public, verbatim, for their impartial consideration

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