 | Cesare Blasi - Architecture - 1824 - 756 pages
...staiths of the river *." Lord Keeper Guildford, in 1676, thus describes the waggons and rail-ways. — ' The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - Canals - 1825 - 350 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676, they are thus described: "the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 592 pages
...thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over...dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 207. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery,... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - Railroads - 1832 - 664 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676 they are thus described: " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting those... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1832 - 834 pages
...many years. The first description of them we find in the year 1676: they are thus described: — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 514 pages
...another thing remarkable is their way -leaves ; for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over...ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave." — North's Life of Guildford. sary to have a store-house near the shipping place, where the coals... | |
 | James Day - Railroads - 1839 - 238 pages
...Guildford, who was upon the northern circuit in 1 676, thus describes the waggons and the waggon- ways — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with rollers fitting those... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - Birmingham (England) - 1840 - 334 pages
...Cyclopoedia, the following extract which the article implies as belonging to a work dated 1676, is quoted; "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...a moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They are thus mentioned in 1676 : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
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... rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants. 
