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rous arc afraid to leave it •, and tbofe who 

 arc not fo, purfue it for obvious realbns •, no 

 other part of the road being beaten, or con- 

 venient to travel upon. 



Of a road properly formed, the immedi-. 

 ate channel on either fide (being a fpecies of 

 wajh-ivay) is frequently the cleaneft, firmeft, 

 and, if freed from flones and other obftruc- 

 tions, the pleafantell: horse-path. But who 

 pofleffed of common prudence would ride 

 upon the tender brink of an unguarded 

 ditch ? 



The efFedt is notorious : horfes and car- 

 riages of every kind are equally confined to 

 the fame narrow track upon the ridge ; fre- 

 quently confiding of two ruts and a middle 

 path, with no better quatering for horfes 

 which draw double, than there is in a narrow 

 green-lane, or over a rutty common. 



The method of keeping convex roads in 

 REPAIR is not to permit them to be worn in- 

 to ruts and holes until they be impaifable ; 

 and then to plaftcr over the whole furface, 

 found or unfound, with a thick coat of ma- 

 terials ; but to pay, from time to time, due 

 attention to the wearing of them. 



Ruts 



