BY

DAVID STEVENSON, F.R.S. E.,

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.

Author of Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America ;
Treatise on the Application of Marine Surveying and Hydrometry to
Civil Engineering; Remarks on the Improvement of Tidal Rivers;
Treatise on Canal and River Engineering;

&c. &c. &c.

FROM GOOD WORDS.'

EDINBURGH:

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

1864.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

JUN 20 1917

TRANSFERRED TO MANYAKU COLLEGE LIBRARY

229.3

PRINTED BY R. AND R. CLARK, EDINBURGH.