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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present - Page 78
by Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 608 pages
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 474 pages
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures." * Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration...
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A treatise on roads

Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pages
...to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Nevcrfiftif. Turnpike, — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...hire two men at one place to support my chaise from ores-turning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 508 pages
...to support my chaise from Let me persuade all travellers to c 4 overturning. 24 A TREATISE ON ROADS. avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or buiy them in muddy sand. " It is only bad management that can occasion such very miserable roads, in...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...so abounding with towns, trade, and manufactures."* Mr. Chambers says, in his estimate, " Turnpikes which we saw first introduced soon after the Restoration...
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The Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1838 - 492 pages
...three carts, broken down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...country, which must either dislocate their bones, or bury them in muddy sand." It might be easy to multiply quotations in proof of the state of travelling...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

1850 - 602 pages
...break-down, dislocating road, ruts cut through a pavement must be.' " He says'of a road near Newcastle, ' A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...
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Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management ...

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...
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Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management ...

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...
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Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management ...

Dionysius Lardner - 1850 - 588 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...all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which most either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand. It is only bad...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 21

1850 - 602 pages
...dislocating road, ruts cut through a pavement must be.' " He says of а гожГ near Newcastle, ' Л more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which mu¿t cither dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...
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