 | Henry John Wale - 1883 - 398 σελίδες
...timber from the colliery (near Newcastle) to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." Gas-light unheard... | |
 | Richard Smith Elliott - 1883 - 358 σελίδες
...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 draw four or five chaldrons of coals." A century later, Arthur Young writes : " The coal-wagon roads from the pits to the water are great... | |
 | Henry Sturgis Drinker - 1883 - 444 σελίδες
...to 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 will draw down four or five chaldron of coal, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." Brand tells us... | |
 | Richard Pike - 1884 - 318 σελίδες
...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 four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." In a tract by the Rev. Mr. Craig,... | |
 | Richard Pike - 1884 - 304 σελίδες
...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 four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." B SIR ISAAC NEWTON S PREDICTION... | |
 | Robert Gibbs (of Aylesbury, Eng.) - 1885 - 716 σελίδες
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals ; this is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." These railways, for a long time,... | |
 | 1888 - 722 σελίδες
...laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is immense benefit to the coal merchants." Another description!... | |
 | 1892 - 656 σελίδες
...river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlcts [wheels] fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals." Here is the germ of the iron or steel railway, the general device... | |
 | Roger North - 1890 - 456 σελίδες
...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. Another advantage... | |
 | Roger North, Augustus Jessopp - 1890 - 490 σελίδες
...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. Another advantage... | |
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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... 
