shewing the principles of estimating their strength, proportions, expense, and annual produce, and the conditions which render them effective, economical, and durable

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

as applicable to geological and mining plans, picturesque delineations of ornamental grounds, perspective views and working plans of buildings and machinery, and to general purposes of civil engineering

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

their construction and ventilation

in two parts

with suggestions for its improvement, and notes upon various subjects connected with steam

with a letter from his son

historical, theoretical and practical : illustrated by upwards of three thousend engravings on wood by R. Branston