. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. different districts in England,Scotland, and Wales, his extraordinary skill ena-bled him to surmount difficulties of the greatestmagnitude. The most stupendous undertaking inwhich he was engaged, and the most imperishablemonument of his fame, is the Menai SuspensionBridge over the Baugour Ferry, one of the mostmagnificent structures of its kind in the world TELFORD. 553 TENNANT. He also made several extensive surveys of themail-coach roads by direction of the Post-office,
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. different districts in England,Scotland, and Wales, his extraordinary skill ena-bled him to surmount difficulties of the greatestmagnitude. The most stupendous undertaking inwhich he was engaged, and the most imperishablemonument of his fame, is the Menai SuspensionBridge over the Baugour Ferry, one of the mostmagnificent structures of its kind in the world TELFORD. 553 TENNANT. He also made several extensive surveys of themail-coach roads by direction of the Post-office,and in Sir Henry Parnells Treatise on Roadswill be found many details of his public works,which are too numerous to be enumerated here. In 1808 he was employed by the Swedish gov-ernment to survey the ground, and lay out an in-land navigation through the central part of thekingdom, with the view of forming a direct com-munication by water between the North Sea andthe Baltic. In 1813 he again visited Sweden, andthe gigantic undertaking was afterwards fully ac-complished according to lus plans. His portraitis His genius was not confined to his early life he contributed several poetical piecesof merit to Ruddimans Weekly Magazine, un-der the signature of Eskdale Tarn, and he ad-dressed an epistle in rhyme to Burns, a portion ofwhich is given in Dr. Curries Life of the though he soon relinquished the unprofitabletrade of mere rhyme-stringing, he remained a poetall his life. The poetry of his mind, it hasbeen finely remarked, was too mighty and loftyto dwell in words and metaphors; it displayed it-self by laying the sublime and the beautiful under contribution to the useful, for the service of Caledonial canal, his Highland roads, hisLondon and Holyhead road, are poems of themost exalted character, divided into numerouscantos, of which the Menai Bridge is a most mag-nificent one. What grand ideas can words raisein the mind to compare with a
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