iSa R O A D S. ^^ 



8. 



ROADS. 



THE SPIRIT ol improvement has in no 

 particular made greater exertions than in the 

 FORMING OF RoADs. Within my remem- 

 brance all the roads of the Diftridt lay in their 

 iiatural form ; that is, in a ftate of flatnefs, 

 in flat fituations ; or in hollow-ways, on the 

 acclivities of hills. Now there is fcarccly a 

 flat road or a hollow- way left in the country. 

 The more public roads at leaft are now iini- 

 vcrfally barrelled-, the banks of the hoilow- 

 v.ays having been thrown down, and the flat 

 roads raifed into a convex form. 



Formeriv the floughs and inequalities were 

 filled up with a foft fort of gravel, which 

 being foon reciuced, or finking in the mire, 

 oniy added to the quantity of dirt and the 

 heavlncfs of the road. Now the univerfal 

 covEKiN-G on th's fide of the Vale is lime- 

 stones broken into fmall pieces, affording a 



roi:a:h but durabh' road. 



But 



