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I'AR'l MooR. 



DARTMOOR, ancient villages on, 4 ; Plymouth, 

 WBter Ripply led from, hv Sir F. Diake, C ,U ; 

 ancient roads in, 161, 192; ancient lair on, 

 189; ancient bridges on, 230, 239. 



DEEPING, in Lincolnshire, ~>, 27, 82. 



DENP.IGII, 94, 107, 147. 



DENGE MARSH, 7,9, 11 ; Ness, 10 ; light on, 



DENVER SLUICE, 62, 66. 



Di.pn--i.mi>, 69. 



DEVIL, suppose! to be a bridge-builder, 245. 



DEVON-SHIRK LANE, The, 161; Crooks, 194. 



DON, river, 41. 



DOUGLAS NAVIGATION, 304. 



DOVER, port of, 282, 284; Pharos, 287; 

 Smollett's opinion of, 295. 



DRAKE, Sir FRANCIS, his Leet, 90; adven- 

 tures on Spanish Main, 103 ; the Armada, 



1 )RAIN AGE, Hatfield Level, 39 ; Great Level of 

 the Fens, 49. 



DROITWICH CANAL, 451. 



DROWNED lands in the Fens, 18, 26. 



1 )i K i ; ( 1 1 - lii ; i Dt , EW ATER (See Bridgewater}. 



DUKE'S DOCK, Liverpool, 393. 



DUNKIRK pirates, 281. 



DUNSTAN pillar, laud lighthouse on Lincoln 

 Heath, 233. 



DURHAM, roads in, 204. 



DUTCH, their drainage works in England, 15, 

 36, 39, 45, 53, 61 ; capitalists embark in 

 English drainage, 40 ; their methods of 

 drainage, 55 ; fish the English coasts, 278. 



DUTCH RIVER, Yorkshire, 41, 45. 



DWELLINGS of ancient British, 3. 



DYKE-REEVES, Lincolnshire, 28. 



E. 



EAKNSIIAW, LAWRENCE, self-taught mechanic, 



389. 



EARTHENWARE manufacture, 319, 327, 425. 

 EARTHWORKS, ancient, 3. 

 F.I >IN BURGH, travelling between London and, 



197. 

 EDWARDS, WILLIAM, bridge builder, his 



early life, 266 ; becomes a builder, 268 ; 



studies masonry in Caerphilly Castle, 269 ; 



builds successive bridges over the Taft', 270 ; 



Pont-y-Prydd, 272 ; his other bridges in 



Wales, 273 ; death, 275. 

 EGELRIC'S CAUSEWAY, Spalding, 25. 

 l'.i.iH)N, Lord, his lirst journey to Oxford, 196. 

 Ki.i/ \r,ETH,(2ueen, her visits to the City, 164. 

 l'.i.i:i:.S ln-otliers, founders of pottery manu- 

 facture, 322. 

 ELY, We of, 22, 35, 68. 

 EMBANKMENTS, of Komney Marsh, 7; of 



Thames, 12, 69, 80; of Marsh-laud and 



South Holland, 19. 

 ENGLAND, natuial \\ealth of, 16 ; shipping of, 



in early tim-s, 276; H-a* of, fished l,y 

 foreigners, 278; old taacons of, 287. 



ERITII MARSHES, 12, 14. 



ESSEX, roads in, 200. 



EllIELDREDA, Prill. vss, '_'_'. 



ETRTRIA, Wedgwood's works at, 440. 



F. 



FAHW in early times, 187. 



FEEDING of London, 177, 191. 



FENS, description of Great Level of the, 17, 

 33 ; early reclamations by the Romans, 

 19; by religious recluses, 22; Guthlac, 

 saint of the, 23; reclamations by the 

 monks, 25 ; works of Morton, Bishop of 

 Ely, 29; destructive inundations of the 

 Fens, 30 ; drainage by Vermuyden and the 

 Adventurers under the Earl of Bedford, 49 ; 

 riots amongst the fenmen, 52 ; the drainage 

 completed, 63. 



FEN-SLODGERS, 32, 52. 



IT:NTON-\ IVIAN, Brindley's steam-engine at, 

 330. 



FEUIMES, of the Thames, early, 253, 293; 

 long ferry to Gravesend, ib.; across the 

 Channel, 295 ; Humber, 297 ; Forth, ib. ; 

 Bristol Channel, 298 ; Mersey, ib. 



FIELDING'S voyage to Lisbon, 294. 



FISHERIES, early, 278. 



FISHES in the Fens, 33. 



FISIILAKE and Fishtoft, 39. 



FLASH DISTRICT, near Macclesfield, 307. 



FLEMINGS employed on English drainage 

 works, 40, 50, 53 ; on harbours, 284. 



FLINT-MILLS, Brindley's contrivance of, 321, 

 327. 



FORDS, ancient, 238. 



FOREIGNERS reclaim our marshes, 14; drain 

 our fens, 36, 49 ; fish our sea.s, 278 ; build 

 bridges, 263 ; and harbours, 284. 



FORTH FERRIES, 297. 



! o; N i >ATIONS of early bridges, 251, 255, 263. 



FKIKSLAND settlers in England, 5, 7. 



FRENCH, characteristics of modern, 7. 



FULTON, American engineer, 409. 



G. 



GALCH HILL, Myddelton of, Denbigh, 95. 

 GILBERT, JOHN, Duke of Bridgewater's 



agent, 347, 387, 397, 408. 

 <;M.I;I:UT, THOMAS, Earl Gower's agent, 347, 



432. 



GILPIN'S account of Bristol Cliannel ferry, 298. 

 GLASGOW, travelling between London and, 197. 

 GLOUCEM KusHiiu;, roads in, 201. 

 GOLDEN HILL, Brindley's colliery at, 351, 



468, 476. 

 GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY, 99. 



GOOLE, 41. 



