The Life of Thomas Telford
By Samuel Smiles

"Let us travel, and wherever we find no facility for travelling from a city to a town, from a village to a hamlet, we may pronounce the people to be barbarous"--Abbe Raynal

"The opening up of the internal communications of a country is undoubtedly the first and most important element of its growth in commerce and civilization"--Richard Cobden

• Preface
• Chapter I - Eskdale
• Chapter II - Langholm--Telford a Stonemason
• Chapter III - Arrives in London
• Chapter IV - Becomes Surveyor for the County of Salop
• Chapter V - Telford's First Employment as an Engineer
• Chapter VI - The Ellesmere Canal
• Chapter VII - Iron and other Bridges
• Chapter VIII - Highland Roads and Bridges
• Chapter IX - Telford's Scotch Harbours
• Chapter X - Caledonian and other Canals
• Chapter XI - Telford as a road-maker
• Chapter XII - The Menai and Conway Bridges
• Chapter XIII - Docks, Drainage, and Bridges
• Chapter XIV - Southey's Tour in the Highlands
• Chapter XV - Mr Telford's later years--His death and character

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