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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... expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improve- ments flow . How many places in almost every country might be rendered ...
... expense should be spared in providing them . Roads , canals , and navigable rivers , may be justly considered as the veins and arteries through which all improve- ments flow . How many places in almost every country might be rendered ...
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... expense , the charges for travelling will be lowered , and also the rates for the carriage of goods . An aggregate saving of expense to the public will thus annually take place , amount- ing to a considerable sum , either to be applied ...
... expense , the charges for travelling will be lowered , and also the rates for the carriage of goods . An aggregate saving of expense to the public will thus annually take place , amount- ing to a considerable sum , either to be applied ...
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... expense was defrayed in equal portions by grants of Parliament and local contributions . The operations were conducted by Mr. Telford ; and the result has been the constructing of 875 miles of road in every respect suitable to the ...
... expense was defrayed in equal portions by grants of Parliament and local contributions . The operations were conducted by Mr. Telford ; and the result has been the constructing of 875 miles of road in every respect suitable to the ...
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... expense to be incurred , which is a main consideration , that should always be scrupulously attended to before an engineer * See Appendix No. I. for a description of this machine . decides upon the relative merit of several ap- parently ...
... expense to be incurred , which is a main consideration , that should always be scrupulously attended to before an engineer * See Appendix No. I. for a description of this machine . decides upon the relative merit of several ap- parently ...
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... expense of maintaining it in order by scraping it and laying on materials will be very much increased . The great fault of all roads in hilly countries is , that , after they ascend for a considerable height , they constantly descend ...
... expense of maintaining it in order by scraping it and laying on materials will be very much increased . The great fault of all roads in hilly countries is , that , after they ascend for a considerable height , they constantly descend ...
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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.