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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... most effectually secured is the purpose of the follow- ing pages . The measures necessary to be taken for afford- ing the means of travelling with rapidity and B safety , and of transporting goods at low rates of INTRODUCTION.
... most effectually secured is the purpose of the follow- ing pages . The measures necessary to be taken for afford- ing the means of travelling with rapidity and B safety , and of transporting goods at low rates of INTRODUCTION.
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... necessary to be done to secure good roads in this country , it will be useful to mention the conduct of other nations in this branch of political economy . A description of this kind may serve to give a better tone to the ideas of those ...
... necessary to be done to secure good roads in this country , it will be useful to mention the conduct of other nations in this branch of political economy . A description of this kind may serve to give a better tone to the ideas of those ...
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... . They founded the road on piles where the ground was not solid , and raised it by strong side walls , or by arches and piers where it was necessary to gain eleva- tion . The paved part of the great military roads 8 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... . They founded the road on piles where the ground was not solid , and raised it by strong side walls , or by arches and piers where it was necessary to gain eleva- tion . The paved part of the great military roads 8 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
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... necessary to employ a cart , as all that a horse could carry on his back was not sufficient to defray the cost of a long journey . The time that the carriers ( for such was the name given to those that used carts ) usually required to ...
... necessary to employ a cart , as all that a horse could carry on his back was not sufficient to defray the cost of a long journey . The time that the carriers ( for such was the name given to those that used carts ) usually required to ...
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... necessary to bring them into a perfect state . At the present time , although the country gentlemen are somewhat more active and better informed , the degree of improvement which they have introduced is little more than the palliation ...
... necessary to bring them into a perfect state . At the present time , although the country gentlemen are somewhat more active and better informed , the degree of improvement which they have introduced is little more than the palliation ...
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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.