 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 pages
...Kings, i. 61.) After the withdrawal of the Itoman legions, the existing roads seem to have been suffered would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured four to fall into decay, while... | |
 | George Dodd - 1867 - 372 pages
...me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1869 - 128 pages
...me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidently purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand -to * Thin plates of malleable iron, nailed upon the surface of •wooden rails, were partially used as... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...between Preston and "VVigan, and cautions travellers to avoid it " as they would the devil;" saying " they will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured,...feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer—what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places is the tumbling... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 pages
...between Preston and Wigan, and cautions travellers to avoid it " as they would the devil;" saying, " they will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured,...feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer—what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places is the... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 498 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their lirabs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 660 pages
...purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with rats which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What,... | |
 | Harold Esdaile Malet, Nimrod - 1876 - 458 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 pages
...and he seriously cautions all travellers who may propose to journey through that " terrible country " to " avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down." He tells of ruts four feet deep, filled with mud as the result of a wet summer, and asks, " What therefore... | |
 | Joseph Parsloe - 1878 - 346 pages
...may propose to travel through this terrible country, for a thousand to one they break their necks or limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here...with ruts which I actually measured four feet deep, only from a wet summer." Early in the present century there was a movement in favour of some improved... | |
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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? 
