| Roger North - 1808 - 360 pages
...yielded. In this work he loit 2O,ooo/. Another thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they fell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and fo dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect... | |
| Cesare Blasi - 1824 - 756 pages
...staiths of the river *." Lord Keeper Guildford, in 1676, thus describes the waggons and rail-ways. — ' The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these... | |
| Nicholas Wood - 1825 - 350 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676, they are thus described: "the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting... | |
| Roger North - 1826 - 592 pages
...yielded. In this work he lost 20,000/. Another thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 207. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery,... | |
| Nicholas Wood - 1832 - 664 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676 they are thus described: " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting those... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1832 - 834 pages
...many years. The first description of them we find in the year 1676: they are thus described: — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those... | |
| John Holland - 1835 - 516 pages
...Collieries, &c. about Newcastle, written in 1676, that " another thing remarkable is their way-leaves ; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave."— North's Life of Gnildford. sary to have a store-house near the shipping place, where the coals may... | |
| John Holland - 1835 - 514 pages
...Collieries, &c. about Newcastle, written in 1676, that " another thing remarkable is their way -leaves ; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery...ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave." — North's Life of Guildford. sary to have a store-house near the shipping place, where the coals... | |
| James Day - 1839 - 238 pages
...Guildford, who was upon the northern circuit in 1 676, thus describes the waggons and the waggon- ways — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with rollers fitting those... | |
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