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" ... tis two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in, it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads passable. "
A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or ... - Page 190
by Daniel Defoe - 1762
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The History and Antiquities of Lewes and Its Vicinity, Volume 2

Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 366 pages
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

1850 - 544 pages
...little a way, and then thrown down and left for other tug> to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

1850 - 524 pages
...call here a tag, drawn by tvvo-andtwenty oxen, and even then this carried so little a way, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in it stirs...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 103

1855 - 518 pages
...so little away, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for, if once the rains come in, it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 103

1855 - 550 pages
...call here a tug, drawn by two-and-twenty oxen; and, even then, this carried so little away, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for, if once the rains come in, it stirs...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURTY

ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...call here a tug, drawn by two-and-twenty oxen; and, even then, this carried so little a way, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for, if once the rains come in, it stirs...
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Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and ..., Volume 19

Sussex Archaeological Society - 1867 - 280 pages
...call in Sussex a tug, drawn by twenty-two oxen ; and, even then, it is carried so little a way, and thrown down, and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham. For, if once the rains come on, it stirs...
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History of Battle Abbey

Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland, Catherine Lucy W. Powlett (duchess of Cleveland.) - 1877 - 378 pages
...call in Sussex a tug, drawn by twenty-two oxen; and, even there, it is carried so little a way, and thrown down, and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it reaches Chatham. For, if once the rains come on, it stirs...
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England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the ..., Volume 2

William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 428 pages
...little a way, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in, it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads...
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England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the ..., Volume 2

William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 428 pages
...call here a tug, drawn by two and twenty oxen, and even then, this carried so little a way, and then thrown down and left for other tugs to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in, it stirs...
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