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Excerpt from An Essay for the Construction of Roads on Mechanical and Physical Principles
There is fcarce a Doubt, that the Confiruétion of a Road, mufi depend on mechanical and phyfical Principles. Whether it has been hitherto viewed in this Light, has not come to my Notice. The public Utility of the Subject, alluredljf demands Invefiiga tion. Road making feerns to be far from [0 fimple an Operation, as it is oft imagined; too many Te¿imo nies there are, to evince this; it is complicated. To bring it to perfec tion, requires (as all other Arts do)
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