 ... to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating...  The Industrial Revolution - Page 17by Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 105 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Herbert Powell - Bridgewater Canal (England) - 1908 - 354 pages
...most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks and limbs by overthrows and breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1910 - 556 pages
...describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously " caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to " travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would " the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks " or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. NOTE. — This Paper was placed... | |
 | Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they...for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - Agriculture - 1912 - 530 pages
...describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down." The turnpike road to Newcastle... | |
 | Logan Waller Page - Bridges - 1912 - 336 pages
...to describe this infernal road. Let me seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it, as they would the devil, for a hundred to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrow or breakings down. They will meet... | |
 | George Lanning - China - 1912 - 456 pages
...road between the important cities of Manchester and Liverpool to have been such that travellers should "avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." Ruts four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 192 pages
...road. To look over a map and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to...it as they would the devil; for a thousand to one they may break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with... | |
 | W. J. Wiltshire - Transportation - 1913 - 242 pages
...me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I measured, four feet... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1914 - 952 pages
...sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road . . . let me most seriously caution all travellers to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their lirnb.s by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I measured, four... | |
 | Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society - Cumberland (England) - 1917 - 370 pages
...road south at this period (1768), given by Arthur Young in his " Tour," who " most seriously cautioned all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel...for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breaking downs ...... Between ' proud Preston' and Wigan I actually measured... | |
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