This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... to see your locomotives constructed; to visit your public works; to inspect your mighty war-vessels and all the apparatus that make your nation the mistresB of the seas in peace or in war, and preserve that system of home and colonial polity which gives the Empire of Great Britain continuity in time and extension in space co-terminous with tho reach of the rays of the rising and the setting sun. All this had we planned, all this had we anticipated with that pleasure which so exceptional a prospect might naturally yield; but, prepared as we were for a season rich in all those incidents that seem to us most delightful, the no less regal hospitality of our reception passes quite beyond anything that we could have imagined or looked for. The unexpected and unprecedented experiences of this one day will live in our memories as worthily typical of the whole, and throughout the remainder of our lives we shall all look back upon this grand reception and prolonged hospitality, these unimagined courtesies, as a period of intensest interest, and pleasure without parallel. This hospitality, warming our hearts, as it cheers our lives, is quite beyond adequate acknowledgment. It is simply commensurate with the resources of your country, and with the extent of the realm governed by your noble Queen--God bless her! The glunce into the future is illuminated by such reunions as are this and those which we may now confidently expect will follow. It was long the dream of our beloved and never-to-be-forgotten Holley that the time might come when we should have in America an Institute of Engineers of all departments, to which each of the great Societies should send delegates to meet at stated intervals, and for specified periods, to study those greater problems, and to formulat...