 | Roger North - 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 thefe rails; whereby the... | |
 | Cesare Blasi - 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 from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - 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...straight 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... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 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 timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting... | |
 | 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 from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and... | |
 | Roger North - 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,...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... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 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 from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting those... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 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 from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers, fitting those... | |
 | James Day - 1839 - 238 pages
...Guildford, who was upon the northern circuit in 1 676, thus describes the waggons and the waggon- ways — " 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 rollers fitting those... | |
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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... 
