Excerpt from Life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass F. R. S., &C., &C., (Formerly Engineer-in-Chief to the Trinity House) Nicholas douglass was born on h of October 1826 at Bow, Middlesex, his father, Mr. Nicholas Douglass, from a well-known and highly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.