 ... limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, 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...  The Museum of Science and Art - Pagina 26geredigeerd door - 1854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 706 pagina’s
...ago, was travelled by Arthur Young, who has left us the following description of it :— ' I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' ' To the close of the last century, the internal transport of goods by waggon, was not only intolerably... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 474 pagina’s
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Warrington. Turnpike. — This is a paved road, most infamously bad ; any person would imagine the... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pagina’s
...seriously caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Warrington. Turnpike. — This is a paved road, most infamously bad ; any person would imagine the... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 542 pagina’s
...seriously caution all travellers who may acciM'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Warrington. Turnpike. — This is a paved road, most infamously bad ; any person would imagine the... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pagina’s
...seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their...down, in these eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1838 - 396 pagina’s
...mending it receives in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner....actually passed three carts broken down, in these 18 miles of execrable memory." The benefits which have resulted from the improvement of roads in this... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 614 pagina’s
...places, is the tumbling in loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting the carriage in a most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions,...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." While, however, we allow the present improved roads their proper influence, we must maintain, that... | |
 | 1858 - 438 pagina’s
...is tumbling in some loose stonVs, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the ni(>V intolerable manner. These ' are not merely opinions,...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' To the close of the last century, the internal transport of goods by waggon, was not only intolerablji... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pagina’s
...sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible...down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.' " He says of a road near Wam'ngton, ' This is a paved road, most infamously bad. Any person would imagine... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pagina’s
...receives, is the tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting carriages in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely...broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory ! " Parallel trials of human patience are still common in the less reclaimed districts of the world.... | |
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