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 27
... proper remedy . These defects are , in point of fact , so numerous and so glaring , that it is quite evident that the true principles of the art of road - making have not yet been followed . The breadth of a road is seldom defined to a ...
... proper remedy . These defects are , in point of fact , so numerous and so glaring , that it is quite evident that the true principles of the art of road - making have not yet been followed . The breadth of a road is seldom defined to a ...
Page 38
... proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock , gathering field stones , getting gravel , breaking stones , scraping the road , loading materials into carts ...
... proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying rock , gathering field stones , getting gravel , breaking stones , scraping the road , loading materials into carts ...
Page 41
... proper line of road to be selected . The general rule to be followed in surveys is to preserve the straight line , except when it becomes necessary to leave it to gain the rate of inclination that may be considered proper to be obtained ...
... proper line of road to be selected . The general rule to be followed in surveys is to preserve the straight line , except when it becomes necessary to leave it to gain the rate of inclination that may be considered proper to be obtained ...
Page 48
... the whole of these 800 feet without a great circuit ; but several hundred feet might be saved by a proper improvement of the present road . road ascends three rather steep and long hills , while 48 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... the whole of these 800 feet without a great circuit ; but several hundred feet might be saved by a proper improvement of the present road . road ascends three rather steep and long hills , while 48 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
Page 50
... proper to pass the valley lower down , to take advantage of the intervening high ground , as will be seen by the section , in which it is evident that much less embankment will be required in the line A D B , than in either the direct ...
... proper to pass the valley lower down , to take advantage of the intervening high ground , as will be seen by the section , in which it is evident that much less embankment will be required in the line A D B , than in either the direct ...
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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.