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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... Home Department ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and receive an allowance of seventy - five francs a month . " The roads of France were divided at this time INTRODUCTION . 13.
... Home Department ; the scholars are fifty in number ; these are selected from the Polytechnic School , and receive an allowance of seventy - five francs a month . " The roads of France were divided at this time INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... five horses at once . " * The first attempt to put the roads into order occurred when the turnpike system was in- troduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads in England , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was ...
... five horses at once . " * The first attempt to put the roads into order occurred when the turnpike system was in- troduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads in England , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was ...
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... five hours . 20 " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from twelve to fourteen days to perform this journey ! At pre- sent , notwithstanding the immense ...
... five hours . 20 " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from twelve to fourteen days to perform this journey ! At pre- sent , notwithstanding the immense ...
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... 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 ; it was narrow and crooked , hills had been passed over , and ...
... 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 ; it was narrow and crooked , hills had been passed over , and ...
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... five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock ...
... five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock ...
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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.