Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 99: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers Before entering upon descriptive particulars of some of the most important typical Engineering Works within the confines of the chief British Colonies, it will be expedient to consider the means of reaching them, and this naturally leads to what must always be to Engineers an interesting and important topic, that of oceanic transport by means of Steam Navigation, which is of great interest, indeed of paramount importance, in relation to my subject. The increase in the size, power, and speed, of steam-ships has been so remarkable since their first introduction, that it may be worth instituting a comparison between the vessels employed in trans-oceanic steam navigation at the time of its inception and at the present day. 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.