 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 pages
...possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. 4. It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. At such times obstructions... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...tour they lost their way near Salisbury, and were in danger of having to pass the night on the plain. It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left, and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. At such times obstructions... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...tour they lost their way near Salisbury, and were in danger of having to pass the night on the plain. It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left, and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. At such times obstructions... | |
 | Frederick Clifford - Bills, Private - 1885 - 548 pages
...Hen. V. c. 11, post, Chap. " Highways and Roads," p. 432. 2 18 EEz. c. 20. 3 14 Car. II. c. 6. * " It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and ouly a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. It happened, almost... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory system - 1886 - 472 pages
...way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish in the dusk from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. ... It was only in fine weather...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left, and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. At such times obstructions... | |
 | Burton Willis Potter - Highway law - 1886 - 132 pages
...often such that it was hardly possible to distinguish it in the dark from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides. It was only in fine weather...wheeled vehicles ; often the mud lay deep on the right and on the left, and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. It happened almost... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1886 - 832 pages
...they lost their way near Salisbury, and were in danger of having to pass the night on the plain, g It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...available for wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay * Century of inventions, 1663, No. 68. t North's Life of GuildTord, 136. t Thoresby's Diary, Oct. ai.... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Canals - 1890 - 880 pages
...tour they lost their way near Salisbury, and were in danger of having to pass the night on the Plain. It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth...wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left, and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. At such times obstructions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1893 - 204 pages
...public ways. On the best lines of communication ruts were so deep and obstructions so formidable that it was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available ; for on each side was often a quagmire of mud. Seldom could two vehicles pass each other unless one of them... | |
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It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. 
