. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. droad in some cases of country roads ; and in others a space of ten or twelve feet in themiddle, or at each side, is causewayed for the use of the heavier carriages. Broad stonesare sometimes used for covering part of a road, destined for the greatest part of the traf-fic, or for forming wheel tracks. In the latter case they are always squared or re
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. droad in some cases of country roads ; and in others a space of ten or twelve feet in themiddle, or at each side, is causewayed for the use of the heavier carriages. Broad stonesare sometimes used for covering part of a road, destined for the greatest part of the traf-fic, or for forming wheel tracks. In the latter case they are always squared or regularlyjointed, but in the former the most irregular forms may be used. Timber causewaying isonly used in entrance courts to town mansions, for the sake of avoiding the noise madeby the wheels of carriages and horses feet on stone; or on suspension bridges, for thesake of lightness. For these purposes timber paving is excellent, and lasts for a verylong time. On the Continent, fir timber is used for this sort of paving ; but oak orlarch would, no doubt, last longer. 3539. Street roads with stone tracks (Jig. 537.) have been proposed by Mr. Stevenson,a distinguished engineer. These tracks may either be laid in connection with common 537 ^O^r. l = 1 1111 1i in I 1
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