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 sivua |
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... bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the Rhine at the mouth of the Meuse , and followed the course of the river , to the German Ocean ; the third crossed Burgundy , Champagne , and Picardy , and ended at Boulogne - sur - Mer ...
... bottom of Aquitaine . Another was extended to the Rhine at the mouth of the Meuse , and followed the course of the river , to the German Ocean ; the third crossed Burgundy , Champagne , and Picardy , and ended at Boulogne - sur - Mer ...
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... bottoms of rivulets . Down to the middle of the last century most of the goods conveyed from place to place in Scotland ... bottom of that district called the Gala Water , from the name of the principal stream , the channel of the water ...
... bottoms of rivulets . Down to the middle of the last century most of the goods conveyed from place to place in Scotland ... bottom of that district called the Gala Water , from the name of the principal stream , the channel of the water ...
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... bottom land , makes it impossible to form a road of perfect hardness over a soil of this kind , unless a great deal of labour and expense is applied in draining the soil , and afterwards com- pressing it , by loading it with large ...
... bottom land , makes it impossible to form a road of perfect hardness over a soil of this kind , unless a great deal of labour and expense is applied in draining the soil , and afterwards com- pressing it , by loading it with large ...
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... bottom to the surface of the stones . If even a coating of from sixteen to twenty inches of stones be laid on , it will produce only a palliative of the evil . So that this plan of making a road will be not only very imperfect , but at ...
... bottom to the surface of the stones . If even a coating of from sixteen to twenty inches of stones be laid on , it will produce only a palliative of the evil . So that this plan of making a road will be not only very imperfect , but at ...
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... bottom ; that is to say , over a surface a foot or nine inches long , and six or eight inches wide ; it is lessened very much indeed on the sur- face that bears on the earth . " broken stones of great hardness , they should still be ...
... bottom ; that is to say , over a surface a foot or nine inches long , and six or eight inches wide ; it is lessened very much indeed on the sur- face that bears on the earth . " broken stones of great hardness , they should still be ...
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2d Edition abutments acclivity Allesley arch axle bottom breadth bridge broken stones built carriage centre cloth coach coating commissioners considerable constructed contractor Coventry cross drains depôts depth draught drawing earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer Engravings expense experiments fences foot footpath formed Foster's Booth foundation four inches gravel half hard Hartshill hill hind Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide J. C. LOUDON John Kershaw labour laid length line of road London masonry materials ment miles necessary nine inches North Wales paved pavement placed Plate posts principle proper quicksets Rates of Inclination repair road-making roadway side channels side springs six inches slopes spirit level Stowe Hill surface surveyor Telford Thomas Baylis three inches tractive TREATISE trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts velocity Vignette Titles vols waggon weight wheels whole wing walls Woodcuts yards
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