Excerpt from The Philosophical Magazine and Journal, Vol. 54: Comprehending the Various Branches of Science, the Liberal and Fine Arts, Geology, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce Your Committee feel great satisfaction in having it in their power to say, that Mr. Telford has completely convinced them of the practicability of his plan. The numerous instances which he has already given to the public of his talents as a civil eu gineer, fully prove that the House may place great confidence in his opinion.' But when his Opinion is supported by Mr. Rennie and other engineers, the case of the practicability of this under taking appears to he as completely made out as it is in the na ture ofthings to allow of its being established. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.