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 here meet with rutts which I actu- 

 ally meafured four feet deep, and 

 floating with mud only from a wet 

 fummer; what therefore muft it 

 be after a winter ? The only mend- 

 ing it receives, is the tumbling 

 in fome loofe ftones, which fcrve 

 no other purpofe but jolting a car- 

 riage in the moft intolerable man- 

 ner. Thefe are not merely opini- 

 ons, but facts, for I actually parted 

 three carts broken down in thefe 

 eighteen miles of execrable me- 

 mory. 

 To Warrington. Turnpike. This is a 

 paved road, and moft infamoufly 

 bad. Any perfon would imagine 

 the poeple of the country had 

 made it with a view to immediate 

 deftruction ; for the breadth is only 

 fufficient for one carriage ; confe- 

 quently it is cut at once into rutts ; 

 and you will eafily conceive what 

 a break-down diflocating road rutts 

 cut through a pavement mufl be. 

 The pretence, of wanting mate- 

 rials, is but a mere pretence ; for I 

 remarked feveral quarries of rock, 

 fufficient to make miles of excel- 

 lent road. If they will pave, the 

 breadth ought to be fuch as to ad- 

 mit 



