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3 19382 19802 20222 20642 21062 139 94
6 19537 19959 20381 20802 21224 140.55
9 19693 20116 20540 20963 21387 141.17

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INDEX.

ABBE Raynal on internal communica- Borrodail's " Patent Felt," 163

tion, 2

Ancient canals, 3

Ashlar work, masonry, 129

lating, 89, 90

Bricklaying, 131, 133

Brickwork, specifying, 132

arching, 134

Average leadage, methods of calcu- Bridges and tunnels, 124, 135

BALLASTING, 152

rubble drains underneath, 154
Barnes, Mr., introduction of stone
blocks by, 33

Barrowing, 57

Batters of slope explained, 113
Beaumont, introduction of railways
by, 28

Bedlington Iron Works, rails of, 34,147
Bevan, Mr., on the power of horses, 74
Birkenshaw's patent rail, 34, 147

Blasting rock, 65

Blocks, stone, 33, 154, 158

chairing, 154, 160

setting, at right-angles, 155

obliquely, 156

Block-and-course walls, 131

Bridgewater's, Duke of, Canal, 10
Brunel, Mr., introduction of continu-
ous bearings into England by, 163

CALEDONIAN Canal, 14
Calculating gradients, 40
Canals, Ancient, 3

Roman, 9

English, 10

Scottish, 10, 14

Irish, 17

introduced into Great Britain, 9

and railways contrasted, 19
resistance on, 20, 21

Capillary attraction, 120

Car Dyke Canal, 10

Carlisle Railway, Cowran Hills cut
on, 68

improved method of 157 Chairs, see Pedestals

Booth's, Mr., "Patent Axle Grease and

Lubricating Fluid," 107

Boring, 55

rocks, American patent for, 65

Chapman, Mr., on wrought and cast-

iron rails, 146

Chat Moss, 38

railway upon, 152
Chirk aqueduct, 14

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Excavations, setting out, 53, 55
slopes of, 54, 119

Great North of England Railway,
Croft skew-bridge on, 111

soiling and grassing slopes Great Western Railway, continuous

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dwarf-walling, and piling HARTLEPOOL Railway, 37

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facilitating the delivery of Hornblower, Mr., on cast-iron rails, 31

excavated earth, 115
expense of unloading, 119

Excavation tables 165

FACILITIES of railways, 19, 22, 23
Falls of earth, 56
Felt, 155, 163.

Fencing, 138

Fence-railing, 143

walls, 144

Formation-level, 54, 66

Forth and Clyde Canal, 17

Foss Dyke Canal, 9

GORDON, Mr., on wheel-tires and horses'

shoes, 103.

Gradients 40

rules for calculating, 41
tables of 46, 48

Grand Trunk Canal, 11
Junction, 13

Irish, 18

Granite tramways, 103

Grease, patent axle, 107

Horse, power of a, 74, 76, 78

speed, 74

duration of his day's work, ib.
distance travelled per day by a,

74, 75, 78

gross load removed each day by
a, 74, 76, 98

proper angle of draught for a, 75
useful effect produced each day
by a, 76

tons and cubic yards of earth re-

moved per day by each, 76, 79
expense of, power, 76, 78, 104
expense of removing excavated

earth per cubic yard per mile,
76,79

conveying horses, 82, 87
method of calculating the day's
work of a, 83, 98

maximum effect produced by, 88
Horse-runs, description of, 58
improved, 59

JESSOP's cast-iron rails, 33

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