read before the Literary and philosophical Society of New York

with a practical investigation of its structure and application

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

or a description of the strata and organic remains of the Yorkshire coast : accompanied by a geological map, sections, and diagrams, and figures of the fossils

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

practically described and illustrated

aufgenommen zu Speyer am 14. Mai 1845