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ground ; and the nearer it approaches to 

 one or the other of thefe extremities, the 

 more or lefs injury the road will fuftain by it. 

 Nor is the injury the road itfelf is fub- 

 jefted to the only evil effedt of a fteep-iidcd 

 road. The additional friction which is 

 thereby caufed between the inner naves of 

 the wheel and the body of the carriage, &c. 

 (or between the iron-work which feverally 

 belongs to them) gives an addition of re- 

 fifiancc to the team ; whofe extraordinary ex- 

 ertion on this account is at once injurious to 

 themfelves and to the road. 



Mod of the roads about the metropolis, 

 ^nd many parts of the great north-road 

 between Gunnerfberry-hill in Lincolnfliire 

 and Ferrybridge in Yorkfhirc, are, for road- 

 furveyors, proper fubjeCts of fludy. 



The furveyors of roads, in general, are as 

 uninformed, or as inattentive, about the re- 

 pairing of roads as they are about the form- 

 ins of them. 



Ruts are the principal enemies of a bar- 

 relled road. On a waved road they ferve as 

 fondu^ors to convey off the water : but on 



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