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Dela Posted 12 years ago
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What's the meaning of this part?

There are hundreds of miles of famine roads, built by the starving during the 1840s to connect nothing with nothing in return for little, unregistered on Ordnance Survey base maps.

What's the meaning of the underlined part? thanks!
  

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They were paid very little to build roads that were not really needed. The roads they built are not shown on government issued maps. (The Ordnance Survey is the British Government map-making agency)

  • They were paid very little to build roads that were not really needed.
  • The roads they built are not shown on government issued maps.
  • (The Ordnance Survey is the British Government map-making agency)
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They were paid very little to build roads that were not really needed. The roads they built are not shown on government issued maps. (The Ordnance Survey is the British Government map-making agency)

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