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having laid coat over coat, and piled ton upon 

 ton unnecefiarily, a mound of earth and ftones, ' 

 refembling the roof of a houfe rather than a 

 roiid, is formed. 



The FORMING and repairing of Roads 

 incur a heavy tax on landed property •, and 

 the SAFETY of roads is a matter of public 

 concern. 



Some years ago the Legillature paid con- 

 fiderable attention to this fubjeci:, and ex- 

 tended their authority perhaps as far as could 

 be done with propriety. 



It might bp difficult perhaps to frame a 

 general lazv for the forming of Roads ; bc- 

 caufe different fituations require different 

 FORMS. In low fituations a common-lhorc or 

 a ditch by the fide of a road may be ncceflary ; 

 but in abforbent upland fituations neither of 

 them are admifiiblc : the road ought to fall 

 gently to the foot of the H£Dge-bank on 

 cither fide, when it leads through a lane ot a 

 fuitable width ; or to the foot of a mound 

 OF EARTH, raifcd (with the parings of the 

 road) for the purpofe, when the lane is too 

 wide, or the road pafles over an open country. 

 In low retentive fituations, where deep drains 

 N 4 are 



