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" I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art,... "
The Construction of Roads and Streets: With Historical Sketch of the ... - Page 9
by William Henry Maxwell - 1899 - 260 pages
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A treatise on roads

Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pages
...published in 1770, gives the following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike 1 know not in the whole range of...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 508 pages
...in 1770, gives the following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To JVigan. Turnpike 1 know not in the whole range of language...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country INTRODUCTION. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...the following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand...
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Grossbritanniens Gesetzgebung über Gewerbe, Handel, und innere ...

Carl Theodor von Kleinschrod - Commercial law - 1836 - 514 pages
...58efÄ)retb«ng ber SSSege im 9îorben »on gnglanb in feiner „Six months Tour" 1770. „To Wigan." „I linow not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...this terrible country , to avoid it, as they would avoid the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necio or their limbs, by overthrow! or breakings...
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A treatise on roads

Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1838 - 578 pages
...the following account of some of the roads in the north of England: — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. dentally propose to travel this terrible country...
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A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made ...

Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...the following account of some of the roads in the north of England : — " To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently...Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci* M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible...
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The Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1838 - 492 pages
...the following account of some of the roads in the north of England: — "To Wigan. Turnpike. — I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible...
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Miscellanea Critica: Comment Upon Contemporaneous Literature and ..., Volume 3

India - 1858 - 438 pages
...of it : — ' I know \pt in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive tfc^describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution...travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terribli country, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks...
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History of the British turf, Volume 1

James Christie Whyte - 1840 - 616 pages
...Young, in his "Tour in the North of England," published in 1770.* * " I know not," writes Mr. Young, " in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...his tour the following account of the state of the roads at that time : — ' I know not,' he Bays, ' in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently...this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the...
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