Southern good roads . ofenergy required to convey the loads of ordinary wag- ons up steep slopes is quite as great as it woukl be inthe case of a locomotive climljing like grades, and thep iwcr Avliicli is through horseflesh costs farnuirc per unit thai. Ihat used in a li)Comotive. It isthciifirc clearly impnrtant to take tlie same kind ofe;iri in determining the route to be followe(l by ahighway as is taken in the choice of a line for the new-er kind of transportatiiin. file ditticulty of seciuing jir qier engineering skill todetermine the route to be followed by our ordinaryroads a
Southern good roads . ofenergy required to convey the loads of ordinary wag- ons up steep slopes is quite as great as it woukl be inthe case of a locomotive climljing like grades, and thep iwcr Avliicli is through horseflesh costs farnuirc per unit thai. Ihat used in a li)Comotive. It isthciifirc clearly impnrtant to take tlie same kind ofe;iri in determining the route to be followe(l by ahighway as is taken in the choice of a line for the new-er kind of transportatiiin. file ditticulty of seciuing jir qier engineering skill todetermine the route to be followed by our ordinaryroads arises in part from the fact thai the greater por-tion of tlicse lines, even in nur little-settled districts,have alreaily been fixed in a way which makes it al-most impossiljle t cnrrect tlnir coui-se; in part fr nnthe incompetence of our rural road-masters to do thekind of topograpiiic work which is demanded of thosewhn plan such constructions. Only slowly- can wehope to correct the alignment of these ways. This task. on Incomplete Macadam Road in Mecklenburg Count\- with Sub.^tantialBridge Across Stream will have to be done in a piecemeal manner, and almnstalways tlie end will have to be attained against muchopposition. In censtructiiig iii»w roads, much help willdoubtless be had from the c mtnur iiiiips which theTnited States Geological Siir\ey. in some cases with theaid of the several states, is now making. The moreperfect of these charts delineate the surface of thecountr\ nil the scale of iie inch to the mile, and theheights are indicated by cnntmir lines which snow ina senerally accurate A\ay tli(> fuiu df the surface atintervals of twenty feet of ehn-ation. So far. maps ofthis description of i\Iassachusetts. Rhode Island. Con-necticut, and Nc^\? dcrsey ha\e lieeii prepared, and workof a similar nature is imw uiuler way in most of thestates of this coinitry. AVith such maps, a discreet en-gineer, however limited his educati >n. can pian theroute of a highw
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