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 páginas |
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... four of them particularly remarkable for their length , and the difficulty of the country through which they passed . One traversed the mountains of Auvergne , and penetrated to the bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the ...
... four of them particularly remarkable for their length , and the difficulty of the country through which they passed . One traversed the mountains of Auvergne , and penetrated to the bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the ...
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... four classes , according to their importance , and the breadth that is given to them . The first class comprised the great roads which traverse the whole of France , from Paris to the principal cities and the ports ; the second class ...
... four classes , according to their importance , and the breadth that is given to them . The first class comprised the great roads which traverse the whole of France , from Paris to the principal cities and the ports ; the second class ...
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... four miles an hour . In other districts , where the materials are harder , a road is seldom to be seen with a smooth surface and of sufficient strength . Very extensive tracts of the kingdom are wholly without regularly formed roads ...
... four miles an hour . In other districts , where the materials are harder , a road is seldom to be seen with a smooth surface and of sufficient strength . Very extensive tracts of the kingdom are wholly without regularly formed roads ...
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... four feet deep , and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones , which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most ...
... four feet deep , and floating with mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones , which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most ...
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... four or five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying ...
... four or five miles , with such a number of labourers under his charge as were sufficient for maintaining the road in proper repair . " It was ordered that the labourers should be , as much as possible , employed by task , in quarrying ...
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Página 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?