CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



ON THE FORCES CONCERNED IN THE LAYING 



AND LIFTING OF DEEP-SEA CABLES .... 422 



Address delivered before the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, December 18, 1865. 



APPENDIX I. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ATLANTIC 

 CABLES OF 1858 AND 1865 413 



APPENDIX II 445 



ON SHIP WAVES . 450 



Lecture delivered at tJie Conversazione of the Institu- 

 tion of Mechanical Engineers in the Science and 

 Art Muscnin, Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, 

 yd August, 1887. 



INDEX 507 



