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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... Deep Cuttings 80 Slopes 80 Wet Land 80 Retaining Walls 81 Precipices 81 Bed of a Road 82 Embankments 83 Slopes at which different Strata will stand 85 London Clay 85 Sandstone 85 Clay and Marl 85 Oxford Clay · 86 Limestone Strata 87 ...
... Deep Cuttings 80 Slopes 80 Wet Land 80 Retaining Walls 81 Precipices 81 Bed of a Road 82 Embankments 83 Slopes at which different Strata will stand 85 London Clay 85 Sandstone 85 Clay and Marl 85 Oxford Clay · 86 Limestone Strata 87 ...
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... deep , and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones , which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most ...
... deep , and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones , which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most ...
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... deep ruts , and even now , since more attention has been paid to road works , though the surface is smoother , the bed of materials which forms it is univer- sally so thin , that it is weak , and consequently exceedingly imperfect ...
... deep ruts , and even now , since more attention has been paid to road works , though the surface is smoother , the bed of materials which forms it is univer- sally so thin , that it is weak , and consequently exceedingly imperfect ...
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... deep ruts , or rather troughs , and the under - drains broken in , unless strong posts of wood or stone are set up , which are unsightly , and dangerous to other carriages when descending at a quick rate . An inclination of 1 in 35 is ...
... deep ruts , or rather troughs , and the under - drains broken in , unless strong posts of wood or stone are set up , which are unsightly , and dangerous to other carriages when descending at a quick rate . An inclination of 1 in 35 is ...
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... deep valley between two hills , it should be carried in a direction . op- posite to the fall of the valley , as by so carry- ing it , that is , by crossing the valley at the highest practicable point , the descent and ascent are ...
... deep valley between two hills , it should be carried in a direction . op- posite to the fall of the valley , as by so carry- ing it , that is , by crossing the valley at the highest practicable point , the descent and ascent are ...
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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.