vi CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



PART VI. Continued. 



CHAPTER V. 



Smeaton appointed receiver for the Derwentwater estates The roads and com- 

 merce of England General want of capital Smeaton extensively em- 

 ployed as an engineer Improvement of navigations Calder Navigation 

 His Report on the drainage of the Lincoln and Cambridge Fens Various 

 drainage works Repairs London Bridge Designs pumpiug-engines 

 Erects bridge at Perth Constructs Forth and Clyde Canal Erects 

 bridge at Coldstream Designs improvements for the Carron Works 

 Banff Bridge Hexham Bridge St. Ives Harbour Ramsgate Harbour 

 Use of the Diving-bell Eyemouth Harbour Mills and machinery 

 erected by Smeaton His improvements in Newcomen's steam-engine 



Page 49-73 



CHAPTER VI. 



Smea ton's home at Austhorpe His study and workshop His blacksmith 

 Papers contributed to Royal Society His tools His lathe His mecha- 

 nical ingenuity and skill His visits to London Engineers' first club 

 His views of money Refuses an engagement to serve the Empress of 

 Russia Determines to publish an account of his works His opinion of 

 literary composition His manners Anecdote of Smeaton and the Duchess 

 of Queensberry His domestic character His benevolence Recognition 

 of his eminent intellectual ability His great industry Failure of his 

 health Death 74-89 



PART VII. LIFE OP JOHN EENNIE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Rennie born at Phantassie, East Lothian Scotland at the middle of last 

 century State of agriculture in the Lothians The population Their 

 . indolence Their poverty Wages of labour County of Ayr The 

 Highland border Want of roads Communication between Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow Stage-coaches and carriers Post-road between Edinburgh 

 and London The first Scotch Turnpike Act passed Ancient Scotch bridges 

 Low state of the mechanical arts in Scotland 93-104 



CHAPTER II. 



Fletcher of Saltoun introduces barley-mills and fanners into Scotland James 

 Meikle Popular prejudice against 'artificial wind' Andrew Meikk-, 

 millwright Progress of agricultural improvement in East Lothian 

 Mr. Cockburn of Ormiston Meikle's mills Clumsy methods employed 

 in thrashing grain Various attempts made to invent a thrashing-mill 



Mr. Kinloch's models Andrew Meikle's invention of the thrashing- 

 machine His improvements in windmills Drainage of Kincardine Moss 



Meikle's mechanical ingenuity His death 105-117 



