Colophon

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-xi

Frontispiece

pp xii-xii

London Bridge

REPORT of J. Smeaton, upon the questions proposed to him by the committee for improving, widening, and enlarging London bridge

pp 1-17

Report of John Smeaton, engineer, concerning the state of the great arch of London bridge

pp 18-21

Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in common Council assembled

pp 22-26

Instructions for Mr. Nichol, to proceed with the water wheel and spur wheels for the great engine, to be erected under the fifth arch of London bridge

pp 27-28

Letter to the committee of London bridge water-works respecting their fire engine

pp 29-30

FORTH AND CLYDE

Report of John Smeaton, engineer, and F. R. S. concerning the practicability and expense of joining the rivers Forth and Clyde by a navigable canal, and thereby to join the east sea and the west

pp 31-54

Comparative estimate between a canal from Forth to Clyde for vessels of forty tons, and for those proposed in the contraced scheme

pp 54-55

Queries proposed by the Right Honorable Lord Cathcart

pp 56-57

Answer to the said Queries

pp 58-65

Minutes concerning the Forth and Clyde

pp 66-70

Estimate of the probable expense of executing a canal from Carron shore to Barns of Clyde for vessels drawing eight feet water

pp 70-71

Instrutions to Mr. Mackell, relative to the proposed canal from Forth to Clyde

pp 71-72

Second report of J. Smeaton, engineer, &c. on the practicability and expense of a canal from the Forth to the Clyde, for vessels of a greater burthen and draft of water than those which formed the subject of the first report

pp 73-90

Estimates

pp 90-97

Review of several matters relative to the Forth and Clyde navigation, with observations on the Reports of Messrs. Brindley, Yeoman, and Golburne

pp 98-119

Comparative view of the expenses upon the work of the Forth and Clyde canal, as per general account, down to Christmas 1771, with the original estimate

pp 120-121

A plan or model for carrying on the mechanical part of the works of the canal from Forth to Clyde

pp 122-124

CALDER AND AIRE

Report of J. Smeaton, engineer, concerning the state of the Calder navigation, from a view thereof taken the 25th and 26th of November, 1767

pp 125-130

Report of J. Smeaton, upon the means of improving the navigation of the rivers Aire and Calder from the free and open tide's way to the towns of Leeds and Wakefield respectively

pp 131-140

Report of J. Smeaton, upon a view of the Calder navigation the 25th and 26th February, 1779, in Company with Messrs. Royde, &c

pp 141-145

Report of J. Smeaton, upon the drainage of certain lands lying on the river Aire

pp 146-150

RIVER AIRE CANEL

Report of J. Smeaton, upon the plan and projection of a canal on the north side of the river Aire from Haddlesey to Brier Lane end, as laid down

pp 151-153