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When the horse is finally driven from our highways there 
will be no objection to surfaces only rough enough to give a 
grip for driving wheels ; but in the meantime, and for many 
years to come, unless there is a rapid and general change in 
the method of shoeing horses, the requirements of the users 
of ordinary carts and carriages must be considered. 
Very valuable experimental work is now in progress in the 
counties of Middlesex and Kent, on some of the main roads, 
which, under the present administration, are being rapidly 
raised to a high standard of excellence ; and as the roads in 
these counties are particularly subjected to heavy motor traffic 
of all kinds, this pioneer work is worthy of the most careful 
attention by those interested in our roads. 
A very simple instrument called “The Viagraph” has been 
invented by Mr. John Brown, F.R.S., Belfast, for taking an 
autographic record of road surfaces, and by its use accurate 
information can be readily obtained as to the relative values 
of various methods and materials for road construction and 
maintenance. 
In conclusion, the writer desires to express the opinion that 
a paper of this kind, on so great a subject, cannot adequately 
deal with the questions involved. The principal value it may 
conceivably have is to attract the attention of thinkers to 
important phases of the problems under consideration, so that 
they may investigate them with some degree of thoroughness, 
and, having attained a sure faith, strive, according to their 
opportunities and powers, to exemplify it in good works. 
There is in the subject a great opportunity for legislative and 
administrative ability. p p COWAN 
Local Government Board, 
Dublin. 
Short List of Publications regarding Roads, to 
which Reference is recommended. 
A Treatise cm Roads , by Sir Henry Parnell, published in 1833. A Practical 
Treatise on Malting and Repairing Roads , by Edmund Leahy, published in 
1847. The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads, by Thomas Codrington, 
M.Inst.C.E., 1892. Pavements and Roads , “ Engineering and Building Record,” 
New York, 1890. Special Consular Reports on Streets and Highways in Foreign 
Countries , published by The United States Government in 1891. Highway 
Construction, by A. T. Byrne (publishers, John Wiley & Sons, New York). 
Road-malting and Maintenance, by Thomas Aitken, M.lnst. C.E., published by 
Charles Griffin & Co., London, in 1900. (New Edition in the Press.) The 
Construction of Roads, Paths, and Sea Defences, by Frank Latham, published 
by the Sanitary Publishing Co., London. Valuable articles will also be found 
in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Incorporated 
Association of Municipal and County Engineers. 
