 | 1846 - 706 pages
...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...mud only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - Roads - 1833 - 508 pages
...accidentally propose to travel this terrible country INTRODUCTION. to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs,...mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country to avoid it, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs,...only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...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,...mud only from a wet summer ; what therefore must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...purpose to travel this tcirible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows...only from a wet summer, — what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places is the tumbling in some loose stones, which... | |
 | James Christie Whyte - Dressage - 1840 - 614 pages
...purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows...only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives in places, is the tumbling in loose stones, which... | |
 | India - 1858 - 438 pages
...necks or their limbs by overthrowsV>r breakings- down. They -will here meet with ruts, which I \ctually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winters The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stonVs, which serve no other... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...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...mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible county, to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs...down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured/b?/r feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer ; what, therefore, must it be... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...their necks or their limbs by overthrowing or breakings down;" warning them "they will meet with ruts four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer." Merchandise was transported at this time almost exclusively by wagons travelling at their top speed... | |
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Let me most seriously caution all travellers 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. 
