in which the great revolutions of the earth and animated nature, are reconciled at once to modern science and sacred history

adapted to modern habitations : with illustrative details, selected from ancient edifices : and observations on the furniture of the Tudor period

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

together with rules deduced from numerous experiments for making an artificial water cement, equal in efficiency to the best natural cements of England, improperly termed Roman cements; and an abstract of the opinions of former authors on the same subjects

to which is added, a glossary of technical terms, used in civil engineering, explaining and illustrating every word in ordinary use; and the details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine, for the Paris and Versailles railway

practically described and illustrated

(abstracts of the two years 1843, 1844)