 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
 | Richard Pike - Railroads - 1884 - 296 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Law - 1892
...of way over a rood of ground. The practice then was " to lay rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlcts [wheels] fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down... | |
 | 1890
...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... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1889
...describes a wooden railway which he had seen at Newcastle during the reign of Charles II, as follows: "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 rowlets fitting these... | |
 | Roger North - Lawyers - 1890
...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... | |
 | United States - 1891
...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 draw four or five... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1892 - 463 pages
...was himself an eye-witness of this road, "is by laying down rails of timber from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting the rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five... | |
 | George Brubaker Kulp - Pennsylvania - 1892 - 155 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 draw four or five... | |
 | George Walter Macgeorge - Public works - 1894 - 565 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... | |
 | George Walter Macgeorge - India - 1894 - 565 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... | |
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