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On Road-mending. 



explain the annexed diagram. This plan cannot be carried out 

 without some trouble and persevei'ance, and few surveyors can 

 spare time from their other engagements to carry it out. Of course 

 the exact shape need not be adopted ; that must depend upon the 

 state of the road, as to form, length, and width, and the quantity 

 of materials necessary to be put on at the time. A passage free 

 from stones must always be left ; evei'y patch to taper at each 

 end, so shaped as to induce the horses to travel by the (near or 

 left) side of the newly-mended road, and not through it, tearing 

 up with their feet those stones that have been pressed together by 

 carriage-wheels having passed over them. When it is necessary 

 to mend the road in very small patches, care must be taken to 

 have a serpentine road free from any stones. 1 need hardly say 

 that the part where the stones are to be laid ought to be picked 

 up, and the stones brohen small enougli, before they are laid on 

 the road. 



William G. Cavendish. 



Latimer, 1857. 



N.B. — When a road is worn into ruts, repair our of them for 

 some yards ; the other to be repaired when the first layer is 

 partially worn. 



