TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



XV 



Canal sand rail roads page 119 



Turnpike roads 120 



Caledonian canal 120 



Forth and Clyde canal . . . 120 

 The Languedoc canal . . 121 

 Rent above and below 



ground 121 



Coals 121 



Cowries 121 



Docks 122 



Life annuities page 122 



Occupations 122 



Official value 123 



Gilding 123 



Cotton yarn 123 



Quick work 123 



East India trade 123 



The tea trade 124 



Sugar 124 



NAVIGATION. 



British tonnage 125 



American tonnage 126 



Average voyages 126 



First rates 126 



The Caledonia 126 



The Commerce de Mar- 

 seilles 127 



Chinese junks 127 



The log line 127 



Steam boats 127 



Ship building 128 



Copper bottoms 128 



The dry rot 129 



The British navy 129 



Starboard & larboard tacks 129 



Masts and yards 130 



Admiral of the Red 130 



Green water 130 



Captain Parry's voyage . . 130 

 Greatest northing and 



southing attained 131 



Point Turnagain 132 



Icebergs 132 



Refraction 132 



British and foreign ships 



entered in 1826 133 



WAR. 



The art of war. .. 134 



Waterloo 134 



Fortresses . . 135 



Vestiges 135 



Bombs 13.5 



Telegraphs 135 



Giving quarter 136 



Stratagems 137 



GEOGRAPHY, HYDROGRAPHY, &c. 



The ocean, its depth and 



temperature ^13Q 



The Pacific ocean 139 



The Mediterranean sea . . 139 



The Caspian sea 140 



Lake Superior 140 



The tides 140 



Straits and Castle of Dover 141 



