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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... Toll Gates and Bars 222 Lamps 224 Milestones 225 CHAP . VIII . MANAGEMENT OF ROAD WORKS , P. 226 . Drawings Specifications Estimates Contracts Deeds of Contract 226 226 226 228 230 CHAP . IX . ix IMPROVING OLD ROADS , P. viii CONTENTS .
... Toll Gates and Bars 222 Lamps 224 Milestones 225 CHAP . VIII . MANAGEMENT OF ROAD WORKS , P. 226 . Drawings Specifications Estimates Contracts Deeds of Contract 226 226 226 228 230 CHAP . IX . ix IMPROVING OLD ROADS , P. viii CONTENTS .
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... IMPROVING OLD ROADS , P. 260 . Page Objects to be attended to 261 Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 ...
... IMPROVING OLD ROADS , P. 260 . Page Objects to be attended to 261 Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 ...
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... improvement of its harbours , canals , and roads . " * Speaking of roads , the Abbé Reynal justly remarks , " Let us travel over all the countries of the earth , and whenever we shall find no fa- cility of travelling from a city to a ...
... improvement of its harbours , canals , and roads . " * Speaking of roads , the Abbé Reynal justly remarks , " Let us travel over all the countries of the earth , and whenever we shall find no fa- cility of travelling from a city to a ...
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... improvement that society can enjoy . " He further says , " The barbarians who over- turned the Roman power were for many ages so incredibly stupid as to undervalue this bless- ing , and almost always neglected , and some- times wantonly ...
... improvement that society can enjoy . " He further says , " The barbarians who over- turned the Roman power were for many ages so incredibly stupid as to undervalue this bless- ing , and almost always neglected , and some- times wantonly ...
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... improved and carried through the provinces . In 1726 the department of the Ponts et Chaussées fell into great dis- order , and was in want of sufficient funds , but the Director - general , the brother of the cele- brated Cardinal ...
... improved and carried through the provinces . In 1726 the department of the Ponts et Chaussées fell into great dis- order , and was in want of sufficient funds , but the Director - general , the brother of the cele- brated Cardinal ...
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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.