. 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. one road branches from another there ought to be aguide-post; and it is not a little remarkable that in this improving age, when everystreet and lane in towns is so carefully named, that so little has been done in the streetsand lanes of the country. The posts which bear the names ought, where the expenseis not an insuperable object, to be of iron,
. 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. one road branches from another there ought to be aguide-post; and it is not a little remarkable that in this improving age, when everystreet and lane in towns is so carefully named, that so little has been done in the streetsand lanes of the country. The posts which bear the names ought, where the expenseis not an insuperable object, to be of iron, on account of its durability. Swaine proposesto have the posts hollow cylinders of cast iron, and the letters to be also of iron, withthe space between them open, so that the light may be seen through them ; by whichmeans the characters of this hand-post will be legible at night, by viewing them againstthe sky, unless it should be exceedingly dark. The direction of the road is denoted bythe manner of disposing the letters: thus, in a guide-post between London and Windsor(fig. 561. a), the letters of the word London are reversed, to denote that the direction ofLondon is to the left hand ; the word Windsor in the line beneath is not reversed,. G04 PRACTICE OV AGRICULTURE. Paht III. as that town must be understood to lie to the- right hand: the number of miles to eachplace is shown by figures placed beneath each word. The same object may also beeffected in the more obvious manner in general use {Jig. 561. 6). 561
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