 | Roger North - Judges - 1808 - 360 pages
...ground ; and fo 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 ftreight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting... | |
 | Cesare Blasi - Architecture - 1824 - 756 pages
...staiths of the river *." Lord Keeper Guildford, in 1676, thus describes the waggons and rail-ways. — ' The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - Canals - 1825 - 350 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676, they are thus described: "the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of...so easy, that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is art immense benefit to the coal-merchants."* At that time, it is probable,... | |
 | John S Skinner - 1825 - 436 pages
...of commercial traffic. Lord Keeper Guilford in 1676, thus describes the wagons and railways:—"The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an raised in the centre, and declining at both ends... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 538 pages
...coales from the pits to the staiths to the river." Lord Keeper Guilford, in 16"6, 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 rowlers, fitting... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 592 pages
...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 four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants. Another advantage of the coasters... | |
 | Roger North - College teachers - 1826 - 484 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... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 660 pages
...II. " The manner of the carriage," says the author of the Life of Lord Keeper North, " is by laying timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight...so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." To a late period in the last century,... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - Railroads - 1832 - 664 pages
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676 they are thus described: " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...so easy, that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants."* At that time, it is probable,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1832 - 834 pages
...many years. The first description of them we find in the year 1676: they are thus described: — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." Iron tracks have... | |
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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... 
