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can be laid well bedded with coarse sand or fine gravel, and 

 slightly rounding in a cross walk, so as to be much less 

 objectionable to through travel than broad stone flags. 



In cities, feather edges of asphalt and coal tar supersede 

 rough stone and foolish brick, as nice gravel shames slovenly 

 earth in the country. 



As a primary lesson in road making, the cross walk of 

 gravel or broken stone is worth describing in detail. The same 

 methotl can be adapted to water bars, angular, or otherwise. 

 Let the gravel or broken stone for the crosswalk be dumped 

 in place across the road, and then divided into two contin- 

 uous and equal lines, two or three feet apart, each side of 

 the centre of the proposed walk. We sketch these two 

 operations at one end in a pair of home-made views. 







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Now, with a potato-hook or close-tined manure-fork, 

 comb all the larger pebbles or stones into the middle space, 

 in slightly rotund shape, and well filled with fine material to 

 form the backbone of the walk, leaving enough stoneless 

 gravel to grade and cover the whole nicely. 



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The new work can be wet with a watering-pot, and rolled 



