INDEX TO VOL. IT. 



501 



SELF-EDUCATION of early engineers Smea- 

 ton's, 8, 13; Rennie's, 126, 141; Telford's, 

 314, 486. 



SELKIRK common carrier, 100. 



SHEERNESS DOCKYARD, 242 ; its re-construc- 

 tion by Rennie, 246. 



SHEET-PILING, description of, 60. 



SHIPPING of the Thames, 136, 195. 



SHREWSBURY, castle, 316,329; Shrewsbury 

 and Holyhead road, 436 ; and London, 441. 



SKIRVING, ARCHIBALD, portrait painter, me- 

 moir of, 278. 



SLAVE-TRADE of Aberdeen, eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 401. 



SLUICES, in drainage of Lincoln Fens, 159. 



SMEATON, JOHN, birth and education, 3 ; 

 placed in a solicitor's office, 1 ; learns the 

 trade of mathematical instrument maker, 

 11 ; makes improvements in mechanics, 12 ; 

 receives the Royal Society's Gold Medal, ib. ; 

 tour in Holland, 1 3 ; employed to rebuild 

 the Eddystone Lighthouse, 26 ; his design, 

 29 ; visits the rock, 31 ; his model, 33 ; the 

 works begun, 34 ; is nearly shipwrecked, 

 35 ; his courage, 39 ; completion of the 

 building, 43 ; extensively employed as a 

 civil engineer, 49 ; in Fen drainage, 51 ; 

 repairs London Bridge, 53 ; his pumping 

 engines, 56 ; builds a bridge at Perth, 56 ; 

 constructs Forth and Clyde Canal, 57 ; 

 bridge at Coldstream, 59 ; improvements at 

 Carron works, 6 1 ; bridge at Banff, ib. ; 

 Hexham Bridge, its failure, 62; St. Ives 

 Harbour, 63 ; Ramsgate Harbour, 65 ; Eye- 

 mouth Harbour, 71; his machinery, 72; 

 improves the steam-engine, 73 ; private life, 

 habits, and character, 74. 



SMOLLETT'S journey to London, 100. 



SOMERSET HOUSE, its river front, 179; 

 Telford works as a mason at, 309. 



SOUTHAMPTON HARBOUR, Rennie's report on, 

 215. 



SOUTHEY and Telford, 427, 484, 491. 



SOUTHWARK IRON BRIDGE, 187. 



SPEY, river, ancient bridge over, 103 ; floods, 

 386 ; Craigellachie bridge over, 387. 



STANGATE CREEK, quarantine establishment 

 at, 238. 



STANHOPE, Earl, his mechanical ingenuity, 142. 



STEAM-ENGINE, Smeaton's improvements of, 

 73 ; Watt's engine applied to driving ma- 

 chinery, 129, 137 ; used in navigation, 143 ; 

 introduced in Royal navy, 267. 



STEIN, Mr., Kilbeggie, orders the first thrash- 

 ing machine, 112. 



STEPHENSON, ROBERT, his estimate of Smea- 

 ton, 86. 



STEVENHOUSE MILL BRIDGE, 131. 



STEVENSON, Mr., resident engineer of Bell 

 Rock Lighthouse, 225, 229, 232. 



STIRLING, ancient bridge at, 103. 



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SUNDERLAND, iron bridge over the Wear at, 

 358. 



SUSPENDED CENTERING, Telford's plan of, 

 445. 



SUSPENSION BRIDGES, 446. 



SUTHERLAND, county of, in eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 379. 



SWEDEN, King of, confers knighthood on Tel- 

 ford, 419. 



SZ^CHENYI, Count, his interview with Telford, 

 476. 



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TELFORD, THOMAS, his native district, 287 ; 

 birthplace in Eskdale, 292 ; his boyhood, 

 295 ; school education, 296 ; apprenticed to 

 a stone-mason, 298 ; journeyman, 301 ; 

 writes poetry, 304; mason at Edinburgh, 

 305 ; rides to London, 307 ; mason at Somer- 

 set House, 308 ; foreman of masonry at 

 Portsmouth, 312 ; his studies, 314; prints 

 letters to his mother, 315 ; surveyor to 

 county of Salop, 316 ; habits and studies, 

 318; his dutifulness as a son, 325; his 

 politics, 326 ; appointed engineer of Elles- 

 mere Canal, 334 ; construction of the works, 

 340 ; re-visits Eskdale, 350 ; tour in Wales, 

 352 ; his poetry, 353 ; builds an iron bridge 

 at Buildwas, 359 ; proposes a one-arch iron 

 bridge over the Thames, 361 ; erects Bewd- 

 ley Bridge, 366 ; Tongueland Bridge, 368 ; 

 Highland roads and bridges, 374 ; Scotch 

 harbours, 390; Caledonian Canal, 409; 

 Gotha Canal, 419 ; Harecastle Tunnel, 420 ; 

 constructs roads in England, Scotland, and 

 Wales, 427 ; bridge over Menai Strait and 

 river Con way, 444 ; St. Katherine's Docks, 

 462 ; Tewkesbury and Gloucester bridges, 

 464 ; Dean Bridge, Edinburgh, 465 ; Glas- 

 gow Bridge, 466 ; drainage of the North 

 Level of the Fens, 467 ; Telford's residence 

 in London, 473 ; President of Institute of 

 Civil Engineers, 474; decline of health, 

 479 ; death, 480 ; character, 481. 



TELFORD, WILLIAM, Surgeon, 296, 320. 



TEMPLE NEWSAM, Leeds, 6 ; Smeaton's 

 pumping engine at, 72 ; gates of, hung by 

 Smeaton, 77. 



TEWKESBURY BRIDGE, 464. 



THAMES SHIPPING, 136, 195. 



THEORY, applied to bridge building, 170. 



THOMSON, ANDREW (Telford's master), mason, 

 Langholm, 298, 302. 



THRASHING MACHINE, Meikle's invention of, 

 109. 



TODMORDEN, canal works near, 146. 



TONGUELAND BRIDGE, 368. 



TORBAY HARBOUR, 207. 



TRADE, of London, 136, 195 ; Glasgow, 205, 

 467. 



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