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, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 465 pàgines |
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... whole of France , from Paris to the principal cities and the ports ; the second class , the roads between the provinces and principal cities ; the third class , the roads between the principal towns in the same province and the ...
... whole of France , from Paris to the principal cities and the ports ; the second class , the roads between the provinces and principal cities ; the third class , the roads between the principal towns in the same province and the ...
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... whole country : a considerable extent of it lay in the bottom of that district called the Gala Water , from the name of the principal stream , the channel of the water being , when not flooded , 18 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
... whole country : a considerable extent of it lay in the bottom of that district called the Gala Water , from the name of the principal stream , the channel of the water being , when not flooded , 18 A TREATISE ON ROADS .
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... whole kingdom . * Mr. Arthur Young , in his Tour in Ireland , says , " For a country so far behind us as Ireland to have got suddenly so much the start of us in the article of roads , is a spectacle that cannot fail to strike the ...
... whole kingdom . * Mr. Arthur Young , in his Tour in Ireland , says , " For a country so far behind us as Ireland to have got suddenly so much the start of us in the article of roads , is a spectacle that cannot fail to strike the ...
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... of Scotland in all directions ; and , although the whole region consists of high mountains , the * A. Young , Tour in Ireland , vol . ii . p . 56 . lines have been laid out with so much science , * c7 INTRODUCTION . 29.
... of Scotland in all directions ; and , although the whole region consists of high mountains , the * A. Young , Tour in Ireland , vol . ii . p . 56 . lines have been laid out with so much science , * c7 INTRODUCTION . 29.
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... whole ; and it would be a very unjust measure to incommode the whole merely for the convenience , or perhaps the gratifying of the whim or caprice of an individual . " * After fixing upon the general line of a road with respect to its ...
... whole ; and it would be a very unjust measure to incommode the whole merely for the convenience , or perhaps the gratifying of the whim or caprice of an individual . " * After fixing upon the general line of a road with respect to its ...
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Pàgina 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?