. 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. is formed in three steps, the lowest 2 feet 6 inches, the next 3 feet 6inches, and the last or top of the milestone 4 feet 6 inches. The use of these steps is, toenable people of different heights, travelling alone, and carrying burthens on their backsor heads, to set down these burthens, rest themselves on the benches, and resume theburthens withou
. 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. is formed in three steps, the lowest 2 feet 6 inches, the next 3 feet 6inches, and the last or top of the milestone 4 feet 6 inches. The use of these steps is, toenable people of different heights, travelling alone, and carrying burthens on their backsor heads, to set down these burthens, rest themselves on the benches, and resume theburthens without assistance. In England such an arrangement is unnecessary ; butvarious plans have been suggested for rendering milestones interesting: names ofbenefactors to mankind who lived near ; dates of remarkable events ; monuments, tombs,statues, small burial places, cottages, alehouses, &c. &c. (See Gard. Mag. vol. v.) Weshould prefer a cottage or a burial place at every milestone, because, as the majority oftravellers are on horses or in carriages, they can have little time to peruse milestones;bit the cottage might afford protection to the foot traveller, and a glance at. the burial Book II. MILESTONES, GUIDE-POSTS, AND TOLL-GATES. 603. place would affordmatter of reflec-tion to all. Ithas been sug-gested to us thatmilestones mightbe made larger,in the form of anobelisk or sarco-phagus, on themodel of an an-cient classical orother building, orin other forms ;and that theremight be in-scribed on themthe names anddates of eventswhich took place,or of great menwho lived, in theneighbourhood ;and that, in ad-dition to these,there might beinscribed on eachmilestone, or structure servingthe same end,maxims of con-duct, or funda-mental principles of science. Thus, on some roads,the milestones might exhibit sculptured reliefs, re-presenting a historical series, either of events in thehistory of that part of the country, in the life ofsome eminent character who had lived there, in theprogr
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