190 . ROADS. t, 



and diftributcd in the mod convenient man* 

 ner, for repairing occafional breaches. 



Before I clofe this fedlion, two particulars 

 require to be fpoken to : 



The width of roads -, and 



The height of hedges on the fides of roads. 



The Road Adts, palTed in the thirteenth 

 year of the prcfent reign, order that every 

 *' horfe or driftway" Hiall be made eight feet 

 Iroad ; and every " cartway'* leading to a 

 market town, iliall be twenty feet broad; that 

 the lane of every " highway" Iliall be thirty ; 

 and the Icnc of every " turnpike road" fhall 

 be fixty feet -wide ; without fpecifying any 

 particuLir Ireadth cf travelcMc 7-oad. 



In fome few iituations, as in the bottom of 

 a narrow valley between two hanging woods, 

 and where a common-fhore and a mound of 

 earth are requifue on either fide of the road^ 

 a lane fixty feet in width may be in fome de- 

 gree neceffary. But, in ordinary fituations, 

 that widih incurs a wajls of land without any 

 adequate advantage. Indeed upon mountains, 

 and in other expofed fituations, the traveller 

 is thereby deprived of the JJ^clUr which a 

 clofe r ianc would alTjul h:n;. 



Nor 



