Excerpt from Parkin Jeffcock, Civil and Mining Engineer: A MemoirThe fact that the Memoir is published while most of the persons incidentally mentioned in it are alive, has made the compilation a matter of some delicacy. I hope, however, that I shall not have wounded the feelings of any by what I have detailed, while I can sincerely say that the truth with regard to the subject of the Memoir has not been knowingly kept back in any material respect.The authority on which my statements rest, and especially those which might appear too eulogistic, if they came only from a brother's pen, has, generally, been specified in its proper place. I beg to thank the authors of those letters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.