with popular descriptions of the prominent characters of some remarkable fossil Encrinites, and their connecting links : illustrated by sixty-six figures

historical, practical, and descriptive

(lu aux séances des 4 et 18 février 1833)

with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain : and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments

connected with a history of the rise and progress of the cotton manufacture in England and America : with remarks on the moral influence of manufactories in the United States

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

as the London and Birmingham - Great Western - Greenwich - Midland Counties - North Union - Leeds and Selby - Grand Junction - Slamannan, and Wishaw and Coltness railways; and the elegant aqueduct of the Lancaster canal, over the river lune...

practically described and illustrated

with an index : corrected to 27th December