By the late Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.
Extract from Contents: Noah's Ark.—Floats on the Rhine.—Egyptian Pottery Float.—Indian Paddle Canoes.—Boats, Barges, and Lighters.—Sailing Canoes.—Chinese Junks.—The Nautilus.—Ancient Vessels.—Roman Galleys.—British Coracles.—Cæsar's Fleet.—A Fire Ship.—A Cutter.—A Gun-boat.—A Bomb-ketch.—A Frigate.—A Man-of-War, with its Long-boat, Barge, Pinnace, Cutter, and Yawl.—A Turkish Galley.—A Venetian Galleas.—A French Galley.—A Xebec, Polacre, and Tartan.—A Snow, Bilander, Schooner, and Dogger.—A Sloop, Hoy, and Smack.—An East-Indiaman.—A Portuguese Carrack.—A Spanish Galleon.—A Canal Boat.—A Wherry, and Pleasure Boat.—Lord Mayor's State Barge.—Venetian Gondola.—The Doge's Bucentaur.—A Man-of-War, with descriptive references.—A Section of a Man-of-War.—The Dock Yard.—The Ship Launch, &c.
III.
THE FOREST.
A Description of Trees generally; with 16 Engravings, shewing the Form and Character of the principal Trees; and 10 Wood Engravings, illustrative of minor peculiarities. Price 3s. 6d. neatly bound in coloured cloth, square 16mo.
Extract from Contents: A Stroll in Autumn.—The New Forest.—The Oak.—Age of Trees.—Oak Apples.—Galls.—Bark, or Tan.—Varieties of Timber Trees.—Transplanting Forests.—Usefulness of Deal Timber.—Turpentine.—Tar.—Pitch.—Resin.—Warlike use of the Yew.—Ancient Bows and Arrows.—Woodland Scenery.—Chestnut of Mount Ætna.—Indian Charcoal Burners.—Foreign Timber Trees.—First Application of Mahogany.—Products of the Palm Tree.—Work in the Woods.—Falling Timber.—Wood Stocking.—Splitting Old Roots.—Measuring Timber.—Making up Faggots.—Carrying Timber.—Timber Drag, and Lever.—Remarkable Applications of Timber.—Westminster Hall.—Riding House at Moscow.—Remarkably large Ships.—Schaffhausen Bridge.—Mr. Rudyard's Lighthouse.—Parts of a Tree.—Inversion of Trees.—Submerged Forests.—Forests on Fire.
IV.
THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF WESTMINSTER
DESCRIBED.
With Twelve Engravings. Price 3s 6d. neatly bound in cloth, square 16mo.