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pretty good order, but the private roads in general, are 
much neglected. 
According to Mr. Darke, the roads must have been 
very much improved of late years; he says, “ We have 
an excellent example for perspicuity and attention at 
the head of our county, and I have it from the best au¬ 
thority, that the late Judge Perrott used frequently to 
say, that Lord Coventry had brought a million of mo¬ 
ney into Worcestershire, from his skilful exertions in 
making roads through the county.” 
“ The roads are in a very improving state ; we border 
on perfection. We have a neighbour, Mr. Martin, 
member for Tewkesbury, who has amply supplied us 
with advice, with large sums of money, and unremitted 
attention: by throwing in our mites, instead of being 
proverbially famed for bad roads round Bredon Hill, 
we are now as much noted for good ones. Our me¬ 
thod is, to form them like a half-barrel; in false ground 
we use wood or furze, large stone, then smaller stone, 
covered with gravel, thick enough to prevent the frost 
tearing the stone; this mode, with attention, gives a 
firm road. As I have before noted, that good roads 
make good farmers, would it not be a proper proceed- 
in the Board of Agriculture, to petition parliament, in 
its justice to take into due consideration the heavy fees 
of the house upon road acts and enclosure bills.” 
Mr. Pomeroy observes, the public roads are in the 
greatest part of the county good, in most tolerable, 
and every where improving. So much cannot be said 
of the parochial roads; these, however, are also gra¬ 
dually improving; the convex form is here approved 
and adopted ; the county, in this particular, is much 
jnxlebted to some of its leading characters. 
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