 | 1850 - 602 pages
...obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.' " — pp. 32 — 34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress,, a fact more... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 572 pages
...parts of the north of England better. He says of a road near Newcastle, now superseded by a railway, " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." CHAP, n.] THE PBOGRESS OF TRANSPORT. 35 Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Yonng... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 460 pages
...obliged to hire two men atone place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." Now it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Young traveled in this manner less than eighty... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 588 pages
...chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which most either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Young travelled in this manner less than... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which mu¿t cither dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.'" — pp. 32—34. It would be difficult to find, in the history of human progress, a fact more striking... | |
 | John Francis - 1851 - 642 pages
...when, and in the very neighbourhood from which, the first idea of locomotive steamengines was taken. " A more dreadful road cannot be imagined ; I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." When, however, business between town and country augmented, and a quick transit was rendered necessary,... | |
 | 1851 - 748 pages
...* See Appendix in Illustration. is cut at once into ruts," etc. — " Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either...their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in sandy mud." This was spoken in 1770, of one of the wealthiest portions of England, which is at present,... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pages
...chaise from overturning. Let me pe: suade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which muat either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." Now, it so happens that the precise ground over which Mr. Young travelled in this manner less than... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 576 pages
...for the breadth is only sufficient for one carriage ; consequently it is cut at once into ruts," dec. "Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in sandy mud." This was spoken in 1770, of one of the wealthiest portions of England, which is at present,... | |
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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... 
