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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Page 15
... roads to Burgos ; one passing through Valladolid , and the other through Aranda de Duero . From Burgos , the road is continued by Vittoria and Irun to France . Both these roads are in tolerable repair . From Valladolid INTRODUCTION . 15.
... roads to Burgos ; one passing through Valladolid , and the other through Aranda de Duero . From Burgos , the road is continued by Vittoria and Irun to France . Both these roads are in tolerable repair . From Valladolid INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... passing through a very hilly country . Mr. Abercromby pursued , as a regular profession , the business of making roads . He laid out the road from Kin- ross to Perth , and by following the valleys , ob- tained an excellent line ...
... passing through a very hilly country . Mr. Abercromby pursued , as a regular profession , the business of making roads . He laid out the road from Kin- ross to Perth , and by following the valleys , ob- tained an excellent line ...
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... passes , to be ascer- tained by boring ; for it is by this means alone that the slopes at which the cuttings and embank- ments will stand can be determined and calcu- lated . If it be necessary to cross rivers , the height of the ...
... passes , to be ascer- tained by boring ; for it is by this means alone that the slopes at which the cuttings and embank- ments will stand can be determined and calcu- lated . If it be necessary to cross rivers , the height of the ...
Page 43
... passing the ridges in the di- rect line . The saving of perpendicular height to be passed over by a road , though a matter of so much importance and practical utility , has not hitherto received that attention from engineers which it ...
... passing the ridges in the di- rect line . The saving of perpendicular height to be passed over by a road , though a matter of so much importance and practical utility , has not hitherto received that attention from engineers which it ...
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... passing these straits , it has improved the road by its being no longer neces- sary to descend to the level of the water . Plate I. Fig . 8 . See In most cases , however , valleys may be crossed by high embankments of earth , such as ...
... passing these straits , it has improved the road by its being no longer neces- sary to descend to the level of the water . Plate I. Fig . 8 . See In most cases , however , valleys may be crossed by high embankments of earth , such as ...
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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.