 | United States. Congress. House - 1867 - 770 pages
...and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged, or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that, when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a cor.vexity of fonr inches in the breadth of fifteen lect from the centre." It is claimed, for a foundation... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 736 pages
...and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand, with a light hammer; so that when the whole pavement is finished,...convexity of 4 inches in the breadth of 15 feet from the center."* The stone which Telford employed for this purpose, was generally such as would have been... | |
 | FREDERICK W. SIMMS - 1870 - 174 pages
...firmly wedged, or packed by hand with a light hammer ; so that, when the pavement is finished, there may be a convexity of 4 inches in the breadth of 15 feet from the centre. '" The middle 18 feet of pavement should be coated with hard broken stones, of the form and size described under the head... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1870 - 220 pages
...firmly wedged, or packed by hand with a light hammer ; so that, when the pavement is finished, there may be a convexity of 4 inches in the breadth of 15 feet from the centre. ON LEVELLING. 6 inches. Four of these 6 inches to be first put on, and worked in by carriages and horses... | |
 | Edward Spon - 1874 - 460 pages
...hammer, and all the interstices filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packeJ by hand, with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a convexity of 4 in. in the breadth of 15 ft. from the centre. The foundations of roads exposed to a very heavy traffic,... | |
 | Quincy Adams Gillmore - 1876 - 262 pages
...all the interstices are to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre. " The middle eighteen feet of pavement... | |
 | Quincy Adams Gillmore - 1876 - 292 pages
...all the interstices are to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre. " The middle eighteen feet of pavement... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 pages
...and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips, firmly wedged or packed by hand, with a light hammer ; so that when the whole pavement is finished,...in the breadth of 15 feet from the centre." * The stone which Telford employed for this purpose, was generally such as would have been totally unfit... | |
 | Henry Law - 1877 - 416 pages
...or packed by hand, with a light hammer ; so that when the whole pavement is finished, there shall bo a convexity of 4 inches in the breadth of 15 feet from the centre." * The stone which Telford employed for this purpose, was generally such as would have 'been totally unfit... | |
 | Henry Percy Boulnois - 1883 - 442 pages
...and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished there shall be a convexity of four inches in the breadth of fifteen feet from the centre.f " The middle eighteen feet of pavement... | |
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All the irregularities of the upper part of the said pavement are to be broken off by the hammer, and all the interstices to be filled with stone chips firmly wedged or packed by hand with a light hammer, so that when the whole pavement is finished there... 
