 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 - Página 3371845Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1849 - 274 páginas
...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 coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchant." The construction of these permanent... | |
 | British history - 1849 - 328 páginas
...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 horse will draw down four or... | |
 | 1850 - 178 páginas
...of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, ex»ctly streight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four...so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants. " Another advantage of the coasters... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 páginas
...described to be thus formed : " 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... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 600 páginas
...described to be thus formed : " 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... | |
 | John Francis (of the Bank of England.) - 1851 - 332 páginas
...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 coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants." For a long period no improvement... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 páginas
...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 coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.' This account, as is obvious, refers... | |
 | 1851 - 112 páginas
...ground will expect 20L 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 coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchant." Who would have thought that this... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 páginas
...the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts arc made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immens« benefit to the coal-merchants." — Life nf Lnrd-Kie]>tr North.... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1851 - 752 páginas
...mentioned in li>76 : — '• 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... | |
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