CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



PART VIII. Continued. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Course of the Ellesmere Canal Success of the early canals The Act obtained 

 and working survey made Chirk Aqueduct Pont-Cysylltau Aqueduct 



Telford's hollow walls His cast-iron trough at Pont-Cysylltau The 

 canal works completed Revisits Eskdale Interview with Frank Beattie 



Early impressions corrected Tour in Wales Conduct of Ellesmere 

 Canal navigation His literary compositions Page 340-354 



CHAPTER VII. 



Use of Iron in bridge-building Design of a Lyons architect First iron 

 bridge erected at Coalbrookdale Wear iron bridge, Sundeiiand Telford's 

 iron bridge at Build was His iron lock-gates and turn-bridges Projects 

 a one-arched bridge of iron over the Thames Bewdley stone bridge 

 Tongueland Bridge Extension of Telford's engineering business Literary 

 friendships Thomas Campbell Miscellaneous reading .. .. 355-373 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Progress of Scotch agriculture llomilly's account State of the Highlands 

 Want of roads Use of the Cas-chrom Emigration Telford's survey 

 of Scotland His report Want of bridges Lord Cockburn's account of 

 the difficulties of travelling the North Circuit State of Caithness and 

 Sutherland Parliamentary Commission of Highland Roads and Bridges 

 appointed Dunkeld Bridge built 920 miles of new roads constructed 



Craigellachie Bridge Travelling promoted Agriculture improved 

 Moral results of Telford's Highland contracts 374-389 



CHAPTER IX. 



Highland harbours Wick and Pulteney Town Columnar pier work 

 Peterhead Harbour Frazerburgh Harbour Banff Harbour Old history 

 of Aberdeen, its witchburning and slave- trading Improvement of its 

 harbour Telford's design carried out Dundee Harbour . . 390-408 



CHAPT ER X. 



Canal projected through the Great Glen of the Highlands Survey by James 

 Watt Survey by Telford Tide-basin at Corpach Neptune's Stair- 

 case Dock at Clachnagarry The chain of lochs Construction of the 

 works Commercial failure of the canal Telford's disappointment 

 Glasgow and Ardrossan Canal Weaver Navigation Gotha Canal, 

 Sweden Gloucester and Berkeley, and other canals Harecastle Tunnel 

 Birmingham Canal Macclesfleld Canal Birmingham and Liverpool 

 Junction Canal Telford's pride in his canals 409-426 



