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INDEX TO VOL. I. 



NAVY, English, in early time.;, 276. 

 NENE, river, 19, 62, 67. 

 NEWCASTLE-OX-TYNE, bridge, 240 ; airly 



coal trade, 291. 

 NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, 320, 427, 428, 



431. 

 NEW CHAPEL, 467 ; Brindley's burial-place at, 



476. 

 NEW RIVER, 89 ; the Act obtained, 108 ; map 



of, 111 ; description of the works, 120 ; its 



probable cost, 119; distribution of the 



water, 126 ; constitution of the Company, 



129 ; its prosperity, 131. 

 NEW ROMNEY, 9. 

 NEWS, slow propagation of, in early times, 184. 



NEW WlNCHELSEA, 10. 



NONSUCH HOUSE, on old London Bridge, 257. 

 NORWICH, Bishop's Bridge at, 246. 



O. 



OGLANDER FAMILY, their MS. relating to 



Brading Harbour, 136. 

 OLD LONDON BRIDGE. (See London Bridge.'} 

 OLD ROMNEY, 9. 

 OLD WINCIIELSEA, 9. 

 OUSE (Cambridge), 19, 32, 62, 66. 

 OUSE (Yorkshire), 41 ; bridge, at York, 250. 

 OVERY, JOHN, London Ferry, tradition of, 



253. 



P. 



PACK-HORSE travelling, 179, 192, 416, 426. 



PACKMEN and pedlars, 185, 322. 



PAPER-MILL at Macclesfield, Brindley's fitting 

 of, 316. 



PASSAGE-BOATS established by Duke of Bridge- 

 water, 404. 



PATTISON, Mr. N., his silk-mill at Congleton, 

 325. 



PEAK OF DERBY, Brindley's birthplace in, 307. 



PERRY, Captain, engineer, brought up at sea, 

 73 ; employed by Czar of Russia, ib. ; makes 

 canals and builds docks for the Emperor, 

 74; returns to England, 76; stops Dagen- 

 ham Breach, 77 ; employed at Rye Har- 

 bour, 81 ; death, 82. 



PETERBOROUGH, 22, 29. 



PHAROS at Dover, 287. 



PIERS, ancient, 283. 



PIRACY of the early English, 103, 279. 



PITCH-POTS used for coast lights, 287. 



PLAISTOW MARSH, 12. 



PLAGUE in London, 104, 108. 



PLUMSTEAD MARSH, 12, 14. 



PLYMOUTH, water supply by Drake, 90 ; 

 lights, 289. 



PO-DYKE in Marshland, 20. 



PONT-Y-PRYDD, 270. 



8COTCII. 



POOLE, piratical expedition sent out by, 280. 

 POI-HAM, his Kau, 32; freebooting exploits, 175. 

 PORTS DOWN FAIR, 187. 

 POTTERY districts, 319, 321, 327, 425, 440. 

 POWTE'S COMPLAINT, the, 54. 

 PRESTON-ON-THE-HILL, 348, 378, 392, 432, 



437, 441. 

 PRINCE OF WALES, accident to, from bad 



roads, 203. 



PROVISIONING of London, 177, 191. 

 PIIYMK, DE LA, 38, 41. 

 PUDDLING, process of, 353, 355, 374, 475. 

 PIMPING-ENGINES, Morice's, 88 ; Brindley's, 



:i23, 327, 329, 359, 444. 

 PUTNEY, proposed early bridge at, 202. 



E. 



RAGLAN CASTLE BRIDGE, 250. 



RALEIGH, Sir WALTER, 101, 103, 137. 



RAMSEY, 22, 25 ; Mere, 68. 



REBELLION of 1 745, led to improvement of 

 roads, 204. 



RENNIE, Mr., engineer, 20, 67. 



RIALTO, the, 271. 



RIDING on horseback in early times, 164, 174. 



RlOTS caused by Fen drainage, 46, 52, 58, 61 ; 

 by turnpike roads, 205. 



RIVERS made navigable, 303. 



ROADS, uses of, 153; ancient, 157 ; Roman, 

 ib. ; legislation respecting, 158, 203; (ireat 

 North Road, 162, 204; in Sussex, 162, 231 ; 

 near London, 163, 176 ; in the country, 166, 

 183; Arthur Young's description of them, 

 200 ; turnpike riots, 205 ; Metcalf 's roads, 

 207,222; in Lancashire, 183, 202, 224; 

 in Essex, 200 ; Surrey, 231 ; Durham, 204 ; 

 Kent, 232 ; Northampton, ib. ; Lincolnshire, 

 233; Staffordshire, 425, 431. 



ROCHESTER BRIDGE, old, 240, 247. 



ROMAN works in England, 7, 9, 13, 19, 157. 



ROMNEY MARSH, 7 ; old and new, 9. 



ROTHER, RIVER, 9. 



RUNCORN, Brindley's proposed aqueduct nt, 



392 ; locks and dock at, 399. 

 RUSSIA in Czar Peter's time, 74. 

 RYE, town of, 10 ; harbour, 81 ; lights, 289. 



S. 



SALE MOOR Moss, canal across, 378, 383. 



SALT, carriage of, on horseback, 426. 



SANDWICH, 11. 



SANDTOFT, Hatfield Chase, 37, 45, 46. 



SANKEY NAVIGATION, 334. 



SARUM, earthworks at Old, 3. 



SAWNEY'S BRIDGE, Duke's Canal, 384. 



SCAMPING, ancient, 11. 



SCHEMER, Brindley designati-d the, .>2o. 



SCOTCH prisoners employed on 1-Vn drainap-. ' ' 1 . 



