*[2] This practice of noting down information, the result of reading and observation, was continued by Mr. Telford until the close of his life; his last pocket memorandum book, containing a large amount of valuable information on mechanical subjects--a sort of engineer's vade mecum--being printed in the appendix to the 4to. 'Life of Telford' published by his executors in 1838, pp. 663-90. *[3] A medical man, a native of Eskdale, of great promise, who died comparatively young. *[4] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm. *[5] It would occupy unnecessary space to cite these poems. The following, from the verses in memory of William Telford, relates to schoolboy days, After alluding to the lofty Fell Hills, which formed part of the sheep farm of his deceased friend's father, the poet goes on to say: "There 'mongst those rocks I'll form a rural seat, And plant some ivy with its moss compleat; I'll benches form of fragments from the stone, Which, nicely pois'd, was by our hands o'erthrown,-- A simple frolic, but now dear to me, Because, my Telford, 'twas performed with thee. There, in the centre, sacred to his name, I'll place an altar, where the lambent flame Shall yearly rise, and every youth shall join The willing voice, and sing the enraptured line. But we, my friend, will often steal away To this lone seat, and quiet pass the day; Here oft recall the pleasing scenes we knew In early youth, when every scene was new, When rural happiness our moments blest, And joys untainted rose in every breast." *[6] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm, dated 16th July, 1788. *[7] Ibid. *[8] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm, dated 16th July, 1788. *[9] The discovery formed the subject of a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries in London on the 7th of May, 1789, published in the 'Archaeologia,' together with a drawing of the remains supplied by Mr. Telford. *[10] An Eskdale crony. His son, Colonel Josias Stewart, rose to eminence in the East India Company's service, having been for many years Resident at Gwalior and Indore. *[11] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm, dated 3rd Sept. 1788. *[12] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm, dated Shrewsbury, 8th October, 1789. *[13] It was then under seventeen millions sterling, or about a fourth of what it is now. *[14] Letter to Mr. Andrew Little, Langholm, dated 28th July, 1791.