 | Cornelius Walford - 1879 - 348 páginas
...description of these which we have met with is that given in the life of Lord Keeper North, published 1676. " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1879 - 826 páginas
...coals a moderate distance from the pits to the place of shipping. They are thus mentioned in 1676: "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting these... | |
 | 1882 - 1152 páginas
...civilization of to-day. As early as 1602 rail ways are mentioned in history, and are thus described: The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1883 - 472 páginas
...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. The manner of the carriage...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rovrlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down some four... | |
 | Henry Sturgis Drinker - 1883 - 444 páginas
...1676, for Lord Keeper Guildford, who rode the northern circuit that year, thus describes them : * " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...the river exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky care are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | Richard Smith Elliott - 1883 - 358 páginas
...Beaumont," near Newcastle, England, in 1630. Roger North describes these roads and rolling-stock in 1676: " Rails of timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight and parallel, and carts made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will... | |
 | Henry John Wale - 1883 - 400 páginas
...The only kind of railroads in England in use at this time are thus described by Roger North : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery (near Newcastle) to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers... | |
 | Henry John Wale - 1883 - 430 páginas
...The only kind of railroads in England in use at this time are thus described by Roger North : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery (near Newcastle) to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers... | |
 | Robert Gibbs (of Aylesbury, Eng.) - 1885 - 716 páginas
...description of them as so constructed in the year 1676 will be found in the life of Lord Keeper North — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those... | |
 | 1891 - 624 páginas
...network of iron roads that covers the globe. "The manner of the carriage," says the observant Roger, "ia by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight aud parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage... | |
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... fitting these rails; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals... 
