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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... Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS , P. 270 . Quality of ...
... Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS , P. 270 . Quality of ...
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... direction that general convenience and expedition could require . What is called Watling Street led from Richbo- rough , in Kent , the ancient Rutupiæ , north - east , through London to Chester . The Ermine Street passed from London to ...
... direction that general convenience and expedition could require . What is called Watling Street led from Richbo- rough , in Kent , the ancient Rutupiæ , north - east , through London to Chester . The Ermine Street passed from London to ...
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... direction . " * All the principal roads of France are under the management of Government . The department of the Ponts et Chausseés has the care of them . In the year 1830 , the sum of £ 1,800,000 was granted by the chambers for their ...
... direction . " * All the principal roads of France are under the management of Government . The department of the Ponts et Chausseés has the care of them . In the year 1830 , the sum of £ 1,800,000 was granted by the chambers for their ...
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... direction being laid across the road . The Swedes have long had the cha- racter of being excellent road engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious ...
... direction being laid across the road . The Swedes have long had the cha- racter of being excellent road engineers . Good rock is very generally met with in Sweden , and they spare no pains in breaking it small ; their roads are spacious ...
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... and especially near London , the roads are in a shameful condition ; and the pavement of London is utterly unworthy of a great metropolis . " Introduction , p . 7 . With regard to the lines of direction of the turnpike INTRODUCTION . 25.
... and especially near London , the roads are in a shameful condition ; and the pavement of London is utterly unworthy of a great metropolis . " Introduction , p . 7 . With regard to the lines of direction of the turnpike INTRODUCTION . 25.
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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.