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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... half for the stage coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glas- gow , a journey which is now accomplished in four and a half or five hours . 20 " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only ...
... half for the stage coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glas- gow , a journey which is now accomplished in four and a half or five hours . 20 " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only ...
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... half mile : but , if the hill were of an inclination of 1 in 35 , it might be driven down with perfect safety at the rate of twelve miles an hour ; at which rate the time for going half a mile would be two minutes and a half , so that ...
... half mile : but , if the hill were of an inclination of 1 in 35 , it might be driven down with perfect safety at the rate of twelve miles an hour ; at which rate the time for going half a mile would be two minutes and a half , so that ...
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... half a league long ; it is fifteen feet broad and as many high . M. Ceard was the chief engineer , and claims the merit of being the author of the plan . FIRST BRIGADE . Troop of M. C. The plan of the road , once adopted , it became the ...
... half a league long ; it is fifteen feet broad and as many high . M. Ceard was the chief engineer , and claims the merit of being the author of the plan . FIRST BRIGADE . Troop of M. C. The plan of the road , once adopted , it became the ...
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... M. C , who in two leagues and a half of road has com- mitted , as we have seen , several serious blunders , in spite of all my efforts to oppose him . In these cases it may appear , upon accurately calculating 54 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... M. C , who in two leagues and a half of road has com- mitted , as we have seen , several serious blunders , in spite of all my efforts to oppose him . In these cases it may appear , upon accurately calculating 54 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
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... half a mile , or even a quarter of a mile of road be saved , by expending even several thousand pounds , the good done extends to posterity , and the saving that will be the result in annual repairs and horse labour , will , before long ...
... half a mile , or even a quarter of a mile of road be saved , by expending even several thousand pounds , the good done extends to posterity , and the saving that will be the result in annual repairs and horse labour , will , before long ...
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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.