 | 802 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts, which I \ctually measured, four feet... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand...down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured/b?/r feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...which he " seriously cautions all travellers who may purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrowing or breakings down;" warning them "they will meet with ruts four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | edinburgh - 1846 - 556 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally pro' pose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would ' the devil; for a thousand...and floating with mud only from a wet summer. What, there' fore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives ' is tumbling in some loose stones,... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pages
...the badness of the roads then existing in that district. "You will here meet with ruts," he says, " which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating...from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after winter ! The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose... | |
 | 1847 - 654 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand...break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually could not fathom, floating with mud.... | |
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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? 
