[467] See ante, [vol. iv. p. 150].
[468] In the [Appendix No. 27, p. 645], will be found the number of iron steam-vessels built and first registered in the United Kingdom in each year from 1861 to 1874; and the amount of British tonnage, steam and sailing, from 1850 to 1873, as compared with the United States, France, Holland, and Norway.
LIST OF ARTICLES AND TABLES IN APPENDICES.
| No. | PAGE | |
| 1. | Robert Fulton, his Origin and Place of Birth | [587] |
| 2. | Dredging Machines of the River Clyde Trust, with their Dimensions, Cost, and Power | [591] |
| 3. | Ships launched on the Clyde, 1863-4 | [593] |
| 4. | Shipbuilders on the Clyde, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1871 | [594] |
| 5. | Shipbuilding on the Wear for 1874, and for the Quarter of 1875 ending 30th September, with Names of Builders | [595] |
| 6. | Relative Weight and Strength of Wooden and Iron Ships | [599] |
| 7. | Dimensions of Machinery and Boilers of the American Coasting Steamers “Bristol” and “Providence” | [600] |
| 8. | Comparative Statement of the Average Sailings of the Cunard and Collins Lines of Steamers During the Great Race of 1851 and 1852 | [601] |
| 9. | Passages of the Cunard Steamer “Persia” between Liverpool and New York, 1856 to 1868 | [603] |
| 10. | Steam-ships (Cunard Line, &c. &c.), belonging to Messrs. Burns, MacIver, and Cunard, 1875, and the Trades in which they are engaged | [606] |
| 11. | Table showing the Progress in the Cunard Steamers from 1840 to 1875 | [608] |
| 12. | Cunard Company’s Regulations | [609] |
| 13. | Steamers of the Inman Company, 1875 | [611] |
| 14. | Steamers of the Allan Line, 1875 | [612] |
| 15. | Letter of Instructions, “White Star” Line | [613] |
| 16. | Passages of the “White Star” Steam-ships | [614] |
| 17. | Table of the Passages of Transatlantic Steam-ships, 1873-74, between Liverpool and New York, with Average of each Line | [617] |
| 18. | Particulars of “Anchor” Line of Steamers | [633] |
| 19. | Steamers of the Royal Mail West India Steam Packet Company, 1st January, 1875 | [634] |
| 20. | Steamers of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (1st January, 1875), with the Tonnage, Dimensions, and Cost of each | [635] |
| 21. | Steamers of the Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steam Navigation Company, January, 1875 | [637] |
| 22. | Log of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s S.S. “Khedive” | [637] |
| 23. | List of Steamers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, June, 1875 | [639] |
| 24. | List of Steamers belonging to the French Messageries Maritimes Company, and how Employed in 1875 | [641] |
| 25. | Statement of the Number of Vessels, with their Tonnage, which have passed through the Suez Canal, from 1870 to 1874 inclusive | [643] |
| 26. | Average Time of Passages of the Mail Packets between Kingstown and Holyhead, for Fourteen Years, ending 30th September, 1874 | [644] |
| 27. | Number and Tonnage of Iron Steam-ships built and registered in the United Kingdom from 1861 to 1874, and the total tonnage, steam and sailing, as compared with four other nations | [645] |
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX No. 1. Vol. iv., p. 50.
Robert Fulton.
In the life of Henry Bell by E. Morris (Glasgow, 1844), there is the following letter from Mr. Bell to a Mr. John McNeill. It is dated, Helensburgh, 1st March, 1824, and is as follows:—
“Sir, I this morning was favoured with your letter. In reply to your enquiry respecting the late Robert Fulton the American engineer, his father was a native of Ayrshire, but of what town or district there I cannot say. He went to America, where his son Robert was born.”
As Ayrshire is my own native county, I was curious to ascertain if the Robert Fulton of whom Henry Bell writes was any connection of an old man named Fulton who rented a farm belonging to Lord Ailsa in the district of Carrick about four miles from the town of Ayr where I was born, and where also I was educated under a very dear uncle, the Rev. William Schaw, after whom I was named. Old Fulton (or rather old “Ballig,” which was the name of his farm, and that by which he himself was better known) and his family were members of the United Presbyterian Church, of which my uncle was minister. On his ministerial visits to Ballig, I used, as a boy, frequently to accompany him, perhaps, more for the good fare which was produced on these occasions, than for anything else. Old Ballig or Fulton would be then (1827-1829) a man of somewhere about 80 years of age, and I remember he frequently spoke of an elder brother who had settled in America whose son became a “great man.” What that greatness consisted of, I do not recollect, but as it was something which in my boyish days had, with the good fare, made a lasting impression on my mind, it came fresh to my recollection when I read the letter I have just quoted in the life of Henry Bell, and I wondered if the “great man,” the nephew of old Ballig, was the Robert Fulton of worldwide fame.