44 THE COACHING AGE. 



contributed according to his ability, accompanying 

 his subscription with ' Me grateful one guinea.' 



The aspect of the roads on which McAdam and 

 Telford bestowed so much care and attention, in many 

 instances, is now melancholy, and betokens the state 

 into which Sir James McAdam anticipated they would 

 get when he said the parish would keep them not in 

 good, but in passable repair, which they are as to a 

 portion only of their width in many parts. 



It is well, perhaps, that the great supporters of our 

 roads in years long since past cannot see them in their 

 present altered and dilapidated state, looking almost 

 like country lanes ; about one half only of what 

 was once a broad fine road being now metalled and 

 kept in repair, while the remaining portion is more 

 or less covered with weeds and grass, as is also the 

 case with a considerable part of the footpaths. Main 

 roads as they used to be, and as they are now, are 

 vastly different. 



