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INDEX TO VOL. II. 



HIGHLANDS. 



HIGHLANDS and Lowlands, feuds between, 9. 

 HIGHLAND roads and bridges, 375 ; moral 



results of Telford's Highland contracts, 389 ; 



Highland harbours, 391. 

 HOBHOLE DRAIN, Lincolnshire, 162. 

 HOE at Plymouth, Smeaton on the, 42. 

 HOLLOW walls, Kennie's invention of, for sea 



works, 207. 



HOLMES, Mr., Smeaton's partner, 7. 

 HOLYHEAD, harbour, 208 ; roads to, 434. 

 HORSE-LOAD, Smeaton's account of the, 5. 

 HOUSTON MILL, East Lothian, 107. 

 HOWARD, JOHN, philanthropist, visit to 



Shrewsbury, 317. 

 HOWTH HARBOUR, 213. 

 HUDDART, Captain, Memoir of, 265. 

 HULL DOCKS, 213. 

 HUTCHESON BRIDGE, Glasgow, 208. 

 HYTHE MILITARY CANAL, 236. 



I. 



IMPLEMENTS of husbandry, early Scotch, 104, 



375. 

 INDOLENCE of Scotch in eighteenth century, 



95. 



INDIA DOCKS, West, 197 ; East, 202. 

 INLAND NAVIGATION. (See Canals.} 

 INVERNESS, road communications, 379, 388. 

 IRELAND, transit to, by Holyhead, 208, 



434; canals in, 150, 370. 

 IRON BRIDGES, Rennie's, 175, 176, 187; 



Telford's, 346, 359, 361, 387, 445, 452. 

 IRON MANUFACTURE, 337, 355. 

 IRON-WORK, Smeaton and Murdock's use of 



iron in mill work, 138 ; Kennie's, 139 ; in 



roofing, 203 ; Telford's, in canal aqueducts 



and locks, 346, 359, 361. 

 IRON VESSEL, the first constructed, 337. 

 ISLEWORTH BRIDGE, 177. 

 IVES, ST., Harbour, 63. 



.1. 



JACKSON family, Janet, Telford's mother, 



294, 315, 325, 350; Thomas, Telford's 



cousin, 298, 307. 



JAMES V. and Johnnie Armstrong, 289. 

 JESSOP, JOSIAS, engineer, 30, 34. 

 JESSOP, WILLIAM, engineer, notices of, 30, 



65, 178, 342, 347 ; brief memoir of, 197. 

 JOHNSTONE family, of Westerhall, 289, 307, 



312, 320. 

 JORDAN, Mrs., Telford's notice of, 324. 



K. 



KAIMES, Lord, 95, 104, 115. 

 KATHERINE'S DOCKS, ST., 462. 



LOSTWITHIEL. 



KELSO BRIDGE, 172. 



KEN BRIDGE, New Galloway, 177. 



KENNET AND AVON CANAL, 144. 



KINCARDINE Moss, drained by Meikle's ma- 

 chinery, 115. 



KINCARDINE O'NEILL, ancient bridge at, 103. 



KING'S LYNN, 167. 



KINGSTOWN HARBOUR, 213. 



KINLOCH, Mr., his improvements of the 

 thrashing machine, 110. 



KiNNEiL HOUSE, Boroughsto'ness, 61. 



KIRKCUDBRIGHT, in eighteenth century, 97. 



L. 



LANG, OLIVER, first steam boat for royal navy 

 constructed by, 267. 



LANCASTER CANAL, 148. 



LANGHOLM, Eskdale, 287, 299, 301, 328, 

 351, 491. 



LATHE, Smeaton's Turning, 77. 



LEA, river, Rennie's plans for defence of 

 London, 235. 



LEEDS, in 1724, 4 ; grammar school, 7 ; 

 Wellington Bridge, 177. 



LEGGING Harecastle Tunnel, 421. 



LEITH Harbour and docks, 215. ^ 



LEVEL, Bedford, Rennie's reports on, 166; 

 Telford's drainage of North, 467. 



LEWIS, invention of the, 22. 



LIGHTHOUSES, Winstanley's on the Eddy- 

 stone, 16; Rudyerd's, 21; Smeaton's, 26; 

 on Spurn Point, 72 ; on the Scotch coasts, 

 224; on the Bell Rock, 225. 



LIGHTING of the English Channel, 46. 



LIGHTNING, Smeaton's protection of the Eddy- 

 stone Lighthouse against, 37. 



LIMPLEY STOKE AQUEDUCT, 145. 



LINCOLN Fens drained by Rennie, 152. 



LINTON, East, 93, 119. 



LITTLE FAMILY, Eskdale, 297, 328, 490. 



LlTTLEBOROUGH TUNNEL, 146. 



LIVERPOOL, Rennie's docks at, 204, 215; 

 Telford's notice of, 369 ; Mersey job at, 477. 



LLANGOLLEN, canal works in vale of, 342. 



LOCH, Mr., Inspector of Fisheries, his notice of 

 Rennie as a scholar, 123. 



LOCHS, Caledonian Canal, 411. 



LOCKS, Rochdale Canal, 146 ; London Docks, 

 200; Ellesmere Canal, 361; Caledonian 

 Canal, 414. 



LONDON, Old Bridge, Smeaton's improve- 

 ments on, 53 ; London in 1785, 134 ; docks, 

 136 ; commerce of the port of, 195 ; flast 

 and West India Docks, 197; Waterloo 

 Bridge, 178 ; Southwark Bridge, 187 ; 

 New London Bridge, 268; Telford's pro- 

 posed one-arched bridge at, 361. 



LOSTWITHIEL CHURCH spire struck by light- 

 ning, Smeaton's paper on, 37. 



