 | Ephraim Lipson - Wool industry - 1921 - 298 pages
...writes: " It is impossible to describe these infernal roads in terms adequate to their deserts. . . . Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...with broken pavements or bury them in muddy sand." Mer- Of the London factors we have already spoken,1 and it is only necessary to add that one class... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Engineering - 1925 - 330 pages
...support my chaise from overthrowing, in turning out from a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...with broken pavements or bury them in muddy sand." Young shows that the roads in the south of England were no better than those * Defoe, A Tour through... | |
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A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or... 
