 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...  Dictionary of dates, and universal reference - Page 435by Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1845 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Brown Dillon - Law - 1879 - 826 pages
...Ellicott's Mills, thirteen miles. CHRONOLOGICAL RECORDS. 591 tle, so early as the middle of the seventeenth century ; but they were made of wood and were used...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 five chaldrons of... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 pages
...ground, and so dear, that the 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 to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting... | |
 | Engineering - 1880 - 850 pages
...AD 1676. Lord Keeper Guildford, who was upon the northern circuit that year, thus describes them : " 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... | |
 | Robert L. Galloway - Coal mines and mining - 1882 - 298 pages
...annum for this leave. 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 BO easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Robert Lindsay Galloway - Coal mines and mining - 1882 - 338 pages
...their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 20Z. per annum for this leave. 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... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - Railroads - 1883 - 548 pages
...ground, and so dear, that the 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 to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting... | |
 | Henry John Wale - Commonplace-books - 1883 - 430 pages
...The only kind of railroads in England in use at this time are thus described by Roger North : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery (near Newcastle) to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers... | |
 | Henry Sturgis Drinker - Blasting - 1883 - 444 pages
...1676, for Lord Keeper Guildford, who rode the northern circuit that year, thus describes them : * " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky care are made with four rowlets fitting... | |
 | Henry Martyn Chance - Anthracite coal - 1883 - 716 pages
...the present practice : "The manner of 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 *Except Proo. Eng.... | |
 | Henry John Wale - Commonplace-books - 1883 - 398 pages
...The only kind of railroads in England in use at this time are thus described by Roger North : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery (near Newcastle) to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers... | |
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