A Treatise on Highway Construction: Designed as a Text-book and Work of Reference for All who May be Engaged in the Location, Construction, Or Maintenance of Roads, Streets, and PavementsJ. Wiley, 1892 - 686 pages |
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Page xxx - They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Page xxx - I know not in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road; let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country 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.
Page 541 - ... any improper materials used in its construction, or by or on account of any act or omission of the said Contractor or his agents...
Page 541 - All loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work to be done under this agreement, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the same, or from the action of the elements, or from incumbrances on the line of the work, shall be sustained by the said Contractor.
Page 566 - On this day of , 19 , before me personally appeared to me known and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged that he executed the same.
Page 311 - ... sources are not isolated, and the whole mass of the soil forming the side slopes appears saturated, the drainage may be effected by excavating trenches a few feet wide at intervals to the depth of some feet into the side slopes, and filling them with broken stone, or else a general drain of broken stone may be made throughout the whole extent of the side slope by excavating into it. When this is deemed necessary, it will be well to arrange the drain like an inclined retaining-wall, with buttresses...
Page 310 - ... which are made a few feet wide and have a ditch on the inner side to receive the surface-water from the portion of the side slope above them. These benches catch and retain the earth that may fall from the portion of the side slope above.
Page 558 - ... nor assert that there was any misunderstanding in regard to the nature or amount of the work to be done.
Page 565 - ... all loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work aforesaid, or from the action of the elements, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the same...
Page 282 - ... passing between the places is not sufficient to warrant so great an outlay, it will become a matter of consideration whether the course of the road should be kept straight, its surface being made to undulate with the natural face of the country ; or whether, a level or...