 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 424 דפים
...in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, _ which serve no other purpose but jolting a carnage in the most" intolerable manner. These are not merely...facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.1 A few more excerpts from Young's works and then we must... | |
 | 1892 - 396 דפים
...must it be after a Winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serves no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most...down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | Austin Thomas Byrne - 1892 - 752 דפים
...therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage...facts; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." England sought to improve the ill-condition of her highways... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1895 - 492 דפים
...only mending it receives is tumbling in seme loose atones which serve no other purpose than jolting * carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are...down in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." In conclusion, let me refer but briefly to a very important event which took place last, summer, and... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - 1899 - 304 דפים
...therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage...I actually passed three carts broken down in those 18 miles of execrable memory." In " 1736 we find Lord Hervey, writing from Kensington, complaining... | |
 | Thomas Aitken - 1900 - 560 דפים
...therefore, must it be after a winter t The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage...down in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." "To Newcastle. Turnpike — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | 1900 - 660 דפים
...therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These arc not merely opinions but facts, for I actually past three carts broken down in these eighteen miles... | |
 | Henry Law, Daniel Kinnear Clark - 1901 - 564 דפים
...what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage...down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men... | |
 | Sir Walter Gilbey - 1903 - 156 דפים
...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,...facts, for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." IMPROVEMENTS IN STAGE COACHES. The last twenty-five years... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1903 - 246 דפים
...tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose but jolting a carriage in the most unbearable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory." Young found elsewhere in the north other roads equally bad,... | |
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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 some loose stones, which serve no other purpose... 
