 | edinburgh - 1846 - 556 pages
...accidentally pro' pose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would ' the devil; for a thousand to one they break their necks or ' their...and floating with mud only from a wet summer. What, there' fore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives ' is tumbling in some loose stones,... | |
 | 1873 - 744 pages
...the badness of the roads then existing in that district. "You will here meet with ruts," he says, " which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating...mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after winter ! The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other... | |
 | Commerce - 1847 - 634 pages
...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, which I actually could not fathom, floating with mud.... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil; lor a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which 1 actually mea.sured,-four feet deep, and floating... | |
 | England - 1848 - 710 pages
...purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows...will here meet with ruts which I actually measured 4 leet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must il be after a winter?... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Railroads - 1850 - 574 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...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... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - 1850 - 560 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...and floating with 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,... | |
 | 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...deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. VVhat, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Great Britain - 1851 - 912 pages
...devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or break ings -down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings-down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured,...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... | |
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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. 
