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 RoadLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833 - 438 pages |
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... attended to 261 Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X ...
... attended to 261 Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X ...
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... attended with great inconvenience and danger to travellers , and are quite disgraceful to the national character . As many other great defects exist in all the principal roads , it is to be hoped , that at length the attention of the ...
... attended with great inconvenience and danger to travellers , and are quite disgraceful to the national character . As many other great defects exist in all the principal roads , it is to be hoped , that at length the attention of the ...
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... attended the ex- ercise of the powers of the grand juries in money matters , the general result has been the establish- ing of good roads throughout the whole king- dom . * Mr. Arthur Young , in his Tour in Ireland , says , " For a ...
... attended the ex- ercise of the powers of the grand juries in money matters , the general result has been the establish- ing of good roads throughout the whole king- dom . * Mr. Arthur Young , in his Tour in Ireland , says , " For a ...
Page 46
... consideration , that should always be scrupulously attended to before an engineer * See Appendix No. I. for a description of this machine . decides upon the relative merit of several ap- parently favourable 46 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... consideration , that should always be scrupulously attended to before an engineer * See Appendix No. I. for a description of this machine . decides upon the relative merit of several ap- parently favourable 46 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
Page 70
... attended with much less expense than when a thick coating of broken stones is used ; for six inches of broken stones is sufficient when laid on a pavement , and the pavement may be made with any kind of common stone . By laying the ...
... attended with much less expense than when a thick coating of broken stones is used ; for six inches of broken stones is sufficient when laid on a pavement , and the pavement may be made with any kind of common stone . By laying the ...
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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.