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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... laid in lime ; their longest 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 ...
... laid in lime ; their longest 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 ...
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... laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact , precisely the identical lines , almost in every instance , which formed the footpaths of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country . The following passage is taken from a ...
... laid out according to any fixed principle ; they are , in fact , precisely the identical lines , almost in every instance , which formed the footpaths of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country . The following passage is taken from a ...
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... laid out the road from Kin- ross to Perth , and by following the valleys , ob- tained an excellent line , instead of one passing over a succession of very steep hills . He also laid out the road from Perth to Dunkeld . In all cases he ...
... laid out the road from Kin- ross to Perth , and by following the valleys , ob- tained an excellent line , instead of one passing over a succession of very steep hills . He also laid out the road from Perth to Dunkeld . In all cases he ...
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... laid down on good paper , on a scale of sixty - six yards to an inch for the ground plan , and of thirty feet to an inch for the vertical section . The map should be correctly shaded , so as to exhibit a true representation of the ...
... laid down on good paper , on a scale of sixty - six yards to an inch for the ground plan , and of thirty feet to an inch for the vertical section . The map should be correctly shaded , so as to exhibit a true representation of the ...
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... laid down in the map . A vertical section should be made , and the nature of the soil or differ- ent strata should be shown over which each apparently favourable line passes , to be ascer- tained by boring ; for it is by this means ...
... laid down in the map . A vertical section should be made , and the nature of the soil or differ- ent strata should be shown over which each apparently favourable line passes , to be ascer- tained by boring ; for it is by this means ...
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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.