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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... construct the public roads in such a manner as to admit of travelling with rapidity and safety , and of reducing the cost of the carriage of goods to the lowest possible point . To explain how these objects can be most effectually ...
... construct the public roads in such a manner as to admit of travelling with rapidity and safety , and of reducing the cost of the carriage of goods to the lowest possible point . To explain how these objects can be most effectually ...
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... constructing of 875 miles of road in every respect suitable to the country , and the building of 1117 bridges . These roads traverse the Highlands of Scotland in all directions ; and , although the whole region consists of high ...
... constructing of 875 miles of road in every respect suitable to the country , and the building of 1117 bridges . These roads traverse the Highlands of Scotland in all directions ; and , although the whole region consists of high ...
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... constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the ... constructing this extent of new road , through a country presenting every kind of difficulty , has suggested the ...
... constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the ... constructing this extent of new road , through a country presenting every kind of difficulty , has suggested the ...
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... constructed in a very imperfect manner , was , till within the last five years , one of the worst roads in the king- dom . Through North Wales , in particular , no attention whatever had been paid to the essential points of a good road ...
... constructed in a very imperfect manner , was , till within the last five years , one of the worst roads in the king- dom . Through North Wales , in particular , no attention whatever had been paid to the essential points of a good road ...
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... constructed roads . " The value of these improvements was felt and appre- ciated ; and it became of the highest importance to preserve them in a perfect state , by providing an efficient system of management . 66 By the Act of the 55th ...
... constructed roads . " The value of these improvements was felt and appre- ciated ; and it became of the highest importance to preserve them in a perfect state , by providing an efficient system of management . 66 By the Act of the 55th ...
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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.