Ways and Works in India: Being an Account of the Public Works in that Country from the Earliest Times Up to the Present Day

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A. Constable, 1894 - 565 страници
 

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Страница 238 - I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee.
Страница 238 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man ; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Страница 238 - But I put up with every rebuff, and went on with my plans, determined not to be put down. Assistance gradually increased — improvements were made every day— and to-day a train, which started from London in the morning, has brought me in the afternoon to my native soil, and enabled me to take my place in this room, and see around me many faces which I have great pleasure in looking upon.
Страница 223 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Страница 70 - ... highest floods. These are placed upright in rows, as long as the intended width of the bridge, and distant about ten feet from each other. They are secured at the bottom by being let into the solid rock, and their tops being cut to a level, a long stone is laid upon each row. Above these longitudinal stones others are placed contiguous to each other, and stretching from row to row, in the direction of the length of the bridge.
Страница 127 - ... that on both sides of the canal down to Hissar, trees, of every description, both for shade and blossom, be planted, so as to make it like the canal under the tree in Paradise...
Страница 227 - Observations on a General Iron Railway, or Land Steam Conveyance, to supersede the Necessity of Horses in all Public Vehicles : Showing its vast Superiority in every respect over the Present Pitiful Methods of Conveyance by Turnpike Roads and Canals.
Страница 223 - Another thing that is remarkable is their wayleaves, for when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river they sell leave to lead coals over their ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave.

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