 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 700 pages
...coals a moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They arc 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 arc made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 752 pages
...moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They are thus mentioned in li>76 : — '• 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... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1852 - 418 pages
...says, "have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear, that the owner of a rood of ground...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... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - 776 pages
...a moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They are 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... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1853 - 738 pages
...a moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They are 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...Social Influence. By Frederick S. Williams. With numerous illustrations. London : Ingram. VOL. V.— 25 "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the rirer, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky cart« are made with rowlets, fitting these rails,... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1923 - 328 pages
...ai O o O -o oa a I H 8 tri jQI at that time expended his £30,000. In 1676 they are thus described : 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... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...the ' -staythes' or discharging places on the Tyne. In 1676 they were 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Astronomy - 1859 - 312 pages
...since Railways were employed in the Newcastle collieries. Lord-Keeper 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... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...the existence of railroads in connexion with the collieries, as early as the reign of Charles I.: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber,...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... | |
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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... 
