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 20 - 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?
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| Title | 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 Issue 30517 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature |
| Author | Sir Henry Parnell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1838 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 May 2008 |
| Length | 465 pages |
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