. 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. or rubble causeway (a), or with common road metal (6). Mr. Stevenson proposes tolay these stone tracks upon a firm foundation, if not throughout the whole extent to 570 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. our principal mads, at least upon all their acclivities which exceed a greater rise than at the rate of I perpendicular to - horizontal feet; — an
. 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. or rubble causeway (a), or with common road metal (6). Mr. Stevenson proposes tolay these stone tracks upon a firm foundation, if not throughout the whole extent to 570 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. our principal mads, at least upon all their acclivities which exceed a greater rise than at the rate of I perpendicular to - horizontal feet; — an undulating line of road whichobliges the carrierj in most instances, to modify his load to one halt of what his horsecan take along the more level parts. It is likewise proposed, that the leading streets ofall towns and villages situate upon the principal highways should he laid with theseStone tracks. The traveller would then glide smoothly along, instead of being accom-panied with a thundering noise and jolting motion most unpleasant to himself and theinhabitants of the respective places through which he passes. 3644X Thr advantage*qf stone (rucks in roads cannot be better exemplified than by noticing an made in pres
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