 | 1850 - 178 pages
...the river, ex»ctly streight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these 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. " Another advantage... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 752 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants," — Life of... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 700 pages
...rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts arc made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immens« benefit to the coal-merchants." — Life nf... | |
 | Telegraph - 1851 - 112 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these 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-merchant." Who would have... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...to the river exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these 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.' This account,... | |
 | John Francis - Railroads - 1851 - 642 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these 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." For a long period... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 436 pages
...the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse...will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchants."* The advantage here resulted from the hard, smooth, and... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - 776 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants," — Ltife of... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1853 - 738 pages
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those 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." — -Life of... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...colliery to the river, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlcts, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads became very common in... | |
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The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down... 
