A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road |
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... considerable sum , either to be applied to other expenses , or to the accumulation of the national capital . Before proceeding to show what is necessary to be done to secure good roads in this country , it will be useful to mention the ...
... considerable sum , either to be applied to other expenses , or to the accumulation of the national capital . Before proceeding to show what is necessary to be done to secure good roads in this country , it will be useful to mention the ...
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... considerable effect in Greece . It was reserved for a commercial people to observe the benefits of facility of travelling and trans- porting goods ; hence it is that the invention of paved roads is given to the Carthaginians . " The ...
... considerable effect in Greece . It was reserved for a commercial people to observe the benefits of facility of travelling and trans- porting goods ; hence it is that the invention of paved roads is given to the Carthaginians . " The ...
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... considerable , that the Romans were not satisfied to make them convenient and du- rable , but they also embellished them . 66 They had columns placed from mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for ...
... considerable , that the Romans were not satisfied to make them convenient and du- rable , but they also embellished them . 66 They had columns placed from mile to mile to mark the distance of one place from another ; blocks of stone for ...
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... considerable progress . Conscious of this truth , the Romans seem to have paid particular attention to the construc- tion of roads in the distant provinces ; and those of England , which may still be traced in various ramifications ...
... considerable progress . Conscious of this truth , the Romans seem to have paid particular attention to the construc- tion of roads in the distant provinces ; and those of England , which may still be traced in various ramifications ...
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... considerable number of years , every improvement which depended on the in- dustrious classes has made immense progress , the improvement of roads , the management of which the laws have vested in the hands of the land proprietors , made ...
... considerable number of years , every improvement which depended on the in- dustrious classes has made immense progress , the improvement of roads , the management of which the laws have vested in the hands of the land proprietors , made ...
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Allesley arch Archway road bottom breadth breast walls brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coating Commissioners constructed contractor cross drains depôts depth district draught earth eighteen inches embankments engineer feet wide fences foot footpath formed Foster's Booth foundation four feet four inches gravel ground half Hartshill hill Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide inclined plane J. C. LOUDON John Kershaw labour laid length line of road London masonry Menai Strait ment miles mortar necessary nine inches North Wales parish passing paved pavement pence placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails railway Rates of Inclination repair road materials road-making roadway side channels six inches sixteen inches slopes specification spirit level Stowe Hill streets surface surveyor Telford Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads valley velocity waggon weight wheels whole
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Page 23 - 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?
Page 10 - All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-west to the south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty...
Page 23 - A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.
Page 10 - The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.
Page 291 - At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all.