also an account of experiments on the strength of iron wires and iron bars and rules and tables for facilitating computations relating to suspension bridges

together with those which have been abandoned for the present session; to which are added, a table of distances from the proposed London termini to eight well-known places in the metropolis; a table exhibiting the length, cost, tunnelling, curves, etc., of each of the railways for which bills are now in progress through Parliament : with a glossary; and other useful information

... cast iron bridges, iron and gas works ... plan of the harbour and port of London : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer