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 Road (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from 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 Road

It will be useful, previously to showing what is necessary to be done in order to secure good roads in this country, to mention the conduct Of other nations in this branch of domestic economy.

A description of this kind may serve to give a better tone to the ideas of those country gentlemen, who are trustees Of the public in the management of its roads, and may encourage them to form a more enlarged, and more correct conception of their duties and their responsibility.

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