 | 802 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or break ings-down." The locomotives of... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 474 pages
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art, Roads. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...to some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce, art. Roads. C 2 dentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs, by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 708 pages
...of the Lancashire aristocracy — he cautions all travellers to beware of this terrible country, and to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they dislocate their necks or fracture their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down." The locomotives of... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...me most seriously caution all travelers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to be, at the least, decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may...it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts... | |
 | 1847 - 654 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand to one they break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Commerce - 1847 - 670 pages
...road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers, who may accidentally propose to travel this way, to avoid it as they would the devil. For a thousand to one they break their necks, or their limbs, by overthrows or breaking-down. They will here meet with ruts,... | |
 | Railroads - 1848 - 382 pages
...Arthur Young, writing in 1770, seriously cautions all travellers to avoid certain turnpike roads — for a " thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breaking-downs." A journey from Edinburgh to London occupied a week, and passengers from York to the... | |
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They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer — what, therefore, must it be after a winter? 
