 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...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3371845Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Timbs - 1859 - 312 pagine
...North, in 1676, writes : ' ' 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 rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1860 - 896 pagine
...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 those rails whereby the carriage is so easy that one hurts« will draw down four or... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pagine
...collieries, as early as the reign of Charles I.: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carte are made with four rowlets fitting these rails; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1861 - 432 pagine
...them in 1676 ; he says : ' 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 rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1864 - 396 pagine
...1676, it is recorded — 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 rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | William Galt - 1865 - 484 pagine
...colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four romlets 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." No further improvement seems to... | |
 | William Galt - 1865 - 486 pagine
...will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying lines of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carte are made with four romlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1866 - 370 pagine
...1676, it is recorded — 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 rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | George Dodd - 1867 - 374 pagine
...ground will expect ^20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight...so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coal, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.' This account, as is obvious, refers... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 448 pagine
..."rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts 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 of immense benefit to the coal merchant" These ways were much... | |
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