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in availing themselves of opportunities of retaliating 

 upon him for any grievances he had inflicted upon 

 them. 



In a notice of. the great road-makers the name of 

 Telford, the eminent engineer and principal manager 

 of the Holyhead Koad, must not be omitted. 



He was not, like McAdam, the originator of an 

 entirely new mode of constructing or maintaining 

 roads, but he was an engineer of high standing, 

 and an authority on all matters connected with 

 roads. To him were due many of the improvements 

 on the Great Holyhead Eoad, which was under the 

 Eoad Commissioners, so that he did not come into 

 direct contact with the Government, or hold any 

 official position under it ; thus he was saved all 

 the anxiety and disappointment, with a vast amount 

 of trouble, devolving upon some of those who, as 

 I have shown, were connected with the Postal 

 Office. 



Public services, though often highly appreciated if 

 we may judge from merely verbal expressions of 

 gratitude, are not always requited in a more pleasing 

 and substantial form to the satisfaction or according 

 to the acknowledged deserts of the benefactor ; unlike 

 the poor negro, who, in giving a subscription to 

 a hospital from which he had derived benefit, being 

 unable to express in language his feelings of gratitude 



