And now amid the reign of peace, Art's guiding stream we ply; That makes our wheels, like whirling reels, O'er yielding water fly. As our heroes drove their foes that strove Against the bonnets blue; On every side the waves divide Before the _Waterloo_. --Millar's "Clyde from Source to Sea," page 179. [24] Millar in "Lecture on Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Glasgow Exhibition, 1880-81," page 138. [25] "Greenock Advertiser," August 6th, 1819. [26] "Steamboat Companion" for 1820. [27] Millar, "On the Rise and Progress of Steam Navigation." Lectures at the Glasgow Exhibition (1880-81), page 138. [28] Hodder's "Life of Sir George Burns, Bart.," page 161. [29] Williamson's "Clyde Passenger Steamers," page 32. [30] Lindsay's "History of Merchant Shipping," vol. iii., pages 78 to 80. [31] Weir's "History of Greenock," page 89. [32] Williamson's "Memorials of James Watt" (1856) page 228. [33] "Greenock Advertiser," July 5th, 1839. [34] "Greenock Advertiser," February 5th and May 25th, 1835. [35] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 294. [36] Sir Thomas Sutherland, in the "Pocket Book of the P. and O. Company" (1890), page 15. [37] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 235. [38] Sir John Ross's "Steam Communication to India by the Cape of Good Hope" (1838), page 31. [39] "Greenock Advertiser," January 22nd, 1839. [40] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," pages 320 and 321. [41] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 86. [42] "Practical Mechanic's Journal," vol. i., 1853. [43] The number of steam vessels belonging to the United Kingdom in 1849 was only 1142, of 158,729 tons; Sweden, which was second among the nations of the world, had only about one-tenth of this tonnage.--Porter's "Progress of the Nation," page 626. [44] Holmes' "Marine Engineering," page 74. [45] Rankine's "Steam Engine," page 502. [46] "Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xxviii., page 141; and vol. xxx., page 278. [47] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 434. [48] "Proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xi., page 152. [49] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 435. [50] Pollock's "Modern Shipbuilding, and the Men Engaged in it," page 199. [51] "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers" (1901), page 608. [Illustration: decoration] A Century's Work for the Navy. [Illustration: decoration]