 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...  Popular History of England - Page 29by Charles Knight - 1859Full view - About this book
 | John Arthur Phillips, John Darlington - Metallurgy - 1857 - 350 pages
...colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse wUl draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." In... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...described to be thus formed : " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the collier;' to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, i hat one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Walter White - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1859 - 498 pages
...owner of a rood of ground will expect 201. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to...whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down MEMORABLE BIRTHPLACE. 77 four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants."... | |
 | Charles Knight - Capitalism - 1859 - 526 pages
...owner of a rood of ground will expect 20?. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery down...these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that the horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchant."... | |
 | John Timbs - Astronomy - 1859 - 312 pages
...North, in 1676, writes : ' ' 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 these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...connexion with the collieries, as early as the reign of Charles I.: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down...the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carte are made with four rowlets fitting these rails; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology - 1860 - 896 pages
...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 rails whereby the carriage is so easy that one hurts« will draw down four or... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1861 - 432 pages
...them in 1676 ; he says : ' 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 these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 396 pages
...1676, it is recorded — 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 rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | William Galt - Railroad law - 1865 - 462 pages
...of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying lines of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four romlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
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