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" They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter? "
A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ... - Page 20
by Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 465 pages
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 14

802 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives...
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Grossbritanniens Gesetzgebung über Gewerbe, Handel, und innere ...

Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - Commercial law - 1836 - 514 pages
...expressive, to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country , to avoid it, as they would avoid the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necio or their limbs, by overthrow! or breakings...
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The Progress of the Nation: In Its Various Social and Economical ..., Volume 2

George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 18

John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives...
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Miscellanea Critica: Comment Upon Contemporaneous Literature and ..., Volume 3

India - 1858 - 438 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for...thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts, which I \ctually measured, four feet...
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History of the British Turf: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 1

James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with...
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Wade's London Review, Volumes 1-3

Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand...down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured/b?/r feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 13-14

Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...which he " seriously cautions all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowing or breakings down;" warning them "they will meet with ruts four feet deep, and floating...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 16

Commerce - 1847 - 670 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand...break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually could not fathom, floating with mud....
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 16

1847 - 654 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand...break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually could not fathom, floating with mud....
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