Electrical installations, 130 Ellesmere Canal, 26, 47, 124 Engineers and canal question, 2 Erie Canal, the, 105-111, 116 Fish, Mr Stuyvesant, 114-115 Forth and Clyde Navigation, 50-54 France, waterways in, 100, 102 Frost on canals, 24, 30, 77 _Gentleman's Magazine_, 26 Geographical conditions, 11, 94-96, 98-100 Germany, waterways in, 94, 97, 100-102 Glass, Mr John, 129 Government guarantee, 4 Grand Junction Canal, 26, 39, 120, 123 Grand Western Canal, 45 Great Northern Railway, 31, 83 Great Western Railway Company, 38-45, 67, 68, 70 Grinling, Mr C. H., 30 Hertslet, Sir E. Cecil, 94 Holland, waterways in, 77, 94, 96 Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 120, 123 Hudson, George, 30 Inglis, Mr J. C., 38-39, 45 Jackson, Mr Luis, 115-117 Jebb, Mr G. R., 71 Jekyll, Sir Herbert, 62 Kennet and Avon Canal, 26, 38-45, 121 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 46 Lancaster Canal, 26, 124 Languedoc Canal, 14 Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 120, 135 Leicester and Swinnington Railway, 29 Lift at Anderton, 122-123 Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 21, 23-26, 28 Liverpool merchants, petition from, 25-26 Local taxation, 9-10, 139, 145-146 Locks, 32, 33, 43, 50, 66, 120-121, 127 London and North-Western Railway Company, 37, 46, 48-49, 59-71 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, 128 London County Council, 5 Loughborough Canal, 26, 27, 29 Macclesfield Canal, 46 Manchester and Bury Canal, 46 Manchester Ship Canal, 133 McAdam, J. L., 12-13 Mechanical haulage, 49-50, 121-122, 130-131 Meiklejohn, Professor, 97 Mersey and Irwell Navigation, 13, 15, 21, 24 Mersey Harbour Board, 5 Midland Railway, 30, 37, 67, 83 Mining operations and canals, 46, 65-66, 126-127 Mississippi, the, 111-117 Monmouthshire Canal, 26, 45 Morrison, Mr, 27-28 Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway Company (Great Central), 46 Municipalisation schemes, 4-8, 135 Nationalisation of canals, 4, 10, 135 Neath Canal, 26 North British Railway, 53 North-Eastern Railway, 149 Old Union Canal, 26 Oxford Canal, 26 Packhorse period, the, 12, 16, 18 Paddington Canal, 18-19 Physical conditions, 11, 96-99, 119 Political conditions, 100-102 Principle, questions of, 9-11 Private enterprise, 9, 106, 142 Profits on canals, 15, 16, 21, 26, 27 Public trusts, 4-6 Pumping machinery, 42-43, 63 _Quarterly Review_, 17-22, 111