 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1814 - 478 páginas
...actually form ruts in the road, throw up this sludge in various directions, so as to dam up the water, and to prevent it from running down a slope even of...narrow roads; the hedges would be still too high, for it is the sweeping power of the wind, which carries off dust in dry weather, and which takes up... | |
 | William Greig - 1818 - 256 páginas
...remedy the defects of roads excluded from exposure to the sun and wind ; for the evaporation, and drying effects of heat and ventilation, are more powerful than any surface drainage which could be accomplished. The legislature ought, therefore, again to enact regulations similar to... | |
 | 1820 - 632 páginas
...where any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed.' — • In fact,' he continues, ' roads become dry by evaporation ; and where they are...any surface drainage that could be accomplished.' — p. 14. All the materials, of which the surface of the road is formed, should be broken small. The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 páginas
...where any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed.' — ' In fact,' he continues, ' roads become dry by evaporation ; and where they are...any surface drainage that could be accomplished." — p. 14. All the materials, of which the surface of the road is formed, should be broken small. The... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 páginas
...where any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed.'—' In fact,' he continues, ' roads become dry by evaporation ; and where they are...more powerful than any surface drainage that could be accomplished.'—p. 14. All the materials, of which the surface of the road is formed, should be broken... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 páginas
...fact, roads become dry by evaporation ; and, when they are exposed to the sun and wind, the effect of heat and ventilation are more powerful than any surface drainage that could be accomplished. Walker observes that the advantage of having the hedge next the road consists in its greater safety... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1867 - 752 páginas
...moderate slope, where any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed. When the roads are exposed to sun and wind, the effects of heat and...than any surface drainage that could be accomplished for drying a rough road." Law says: "The majority are averse to a road being much curved in cross-sections.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1867 - 770 páginas
...moderate slope, where any dirt remains upon the ronds, tin1 water will be obstructed. When the roads are exposed to sun and wind, the effects of heat and...than any surface drainage that could be accomplished for drying a rough road." Law says: '¿ The raajorhy are averse to a road being much curved in cross-sections.... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1867 - 736 páginas
....any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed. "When the roads are exposed to snn and wind, the effects of heat and ventilation are...than any surface drainage that could be accomplished for drying a rough road." Law says: " The majority are averse to a road being much curved in cross-sections.... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 528 páginas
...where any dirt remains upon the roads, the water will be obstructed.' — 'In fact,' he continues, 'roads become dry by evaporation; and where they are...any surface drainage that could be accomplished.' — p. l4. All the materials, of which the surface of the road is formed, should be broken small. The... | |
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roads become dry by evaporation; and where they are exposed to sun and wind, the effects of heat and ventilation are more powerful than any surface drainage that could be accomplished. 