We trust the reader has found in this volume at least some hints which may be of service to him. A _new_ house affected with dry rot is an unhealthy one to live in, and an _old_ one is worse than the new; we mean the kind of house referred to in one line by an American poet, as follows: “O’er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends.” LONGFELLOW. FOOTNOTES [1] See white faces of workmen. [2] See London newspapers, July, 1812. [3] ‘Fire Surveys,’ p. 58. [4] ‘Directions to Cure the Dry Rot.’ 1807. [5] See Report of the Officers of Portsmouth Yard, 1792. [6] See Tredgold’s Report on this process, May 2, 1828. [7] See No. 1, p. 3, Appendix to first volume of ‘Naval Architecture.’ [8] See paper on “Kyan’s Process” by Captain R. C. Alderson, C.E., in vol. i. ‘Papers of Royal Engineers.’ [9] See Chapman, Boydon, Jackson, and Kyan’s methods. [10] See ‘London Journal of Arts,’ March, 1842; ‘Bull. de l’Encouragement,’ June, 1842. [11] See ‘Repertory of Patent Inventions,’ December, 1836. [12] See ‘Étuves de Désiccation et Appareil pour l’lnjection des Bois.’ Par MM. Dorsett et Blythé, manufacturiers, à Bordeaux. 1859. [13] See ‘Repertory of Patent Inventions’ April, 1847. [14] See Chap. IV., p. 97. [15] See coating for piles, p. 161. [16] See ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,’ v. 7, page 433; ‘Tredgold’s Carpentry’ by J. T. Hurst, 1871; ‘Histoire de l’Acad.,’ 1765, page 15; ‘Ann. des Ponts et Chaussées,’ v. 15, page 307; ‘Mem. sur la Conservation des Bois à la Mer,’ 1868, by Forestier; ‘Bois de Marine,’ by Quatrefages, 1848. [17] There are eight kinds of _teredines_, of which three are to be found in European waters, viz. the _Teredo fatalis_, _Teredo navalis_, _Teredo bipennata_. [18] See ‘Memoirs of Sir M. I. Brunel;’ also, for particulars of the construction of the shield designed by him for forming the Tunnel, Weale’s ‘London Exhibited,’ and ‘A Memoir of the Thames Tunnel,’ in Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Engineering. [19] Note geometrical framing in spider’s web. [20] ‘Reports of the Juries,’ Exhibition, 1851. ‘Reports’ by Dr. Gibson, Conservator of Forests, Bombay Presidency. ‘Reports’ by Dr. Cleghorn, Conservator of Forests, Madras Presidency. ‘Reports’ by Mr. H. B. Baden Powell, Inspector-General of the Forest Department, India, 1875. ‘Reports’ on the Teak Forests of Tenasserim, Calcutta, 1852. Papers by Mr. Mann and Mr. Heath on ‘Decay of Woods in Tropical Climates,’ Inst. C.E., 1866. Paper on ’ The Ravages of the Limnoria Terebrans,’ by Mr. R. Stevenson, Royal Society, 1862. ‘Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse,’ by Robert Stevenson, 1824. Stevenson’s ‘Design and Construction of Harbours.’ Smeaton’s ‘Reports.’ [21] See ‘Sur un Moyen de Mettre tous les Approvisionnements de Bois de la Marine de la Piqûre des Tarets’ (Compte. rend., Janv. 1848).