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ment of ſuch roads was as unpopular, and the probable benefit as—— credited, as thoſe of canals are now. The money colleâted at the gates was RS as 2 burthen, end the e were íor ſome time loaded with an extra

charge for carriage. This, however, did not laſt long, for

in the courſe of a few years, a diminution in the price of

carriage univerſally took place, and it‘has gradually fallen rom that time to E

Before the turnpike-roads were eſtabliſhed, coal was car- ried on horſes’ backs to the diſtance of fifteen or twenty

miles from the collieries; each horſe carried about two hun-

dred and a half weight. Now one horſe, with a light cart, will draw ten hundred weight, or four times more than the horſe could carry: Can an infignifcant toll be put in com-

petition with this ſaving? In reſpect to private roads, I would recommend a repeal

of the law E ſtatute labour, and changing the ſame

A WW e er a farmer is R forth to perform ſÉatute- 2 YE

labour, he goes to it with relul@ance, and conſiders it as a

4 BES EN E E A IENA 1 TTA al burthen from which he derives no benefit. TiI1s ler-

vant and his horſes ſeem to partake of the torpor of the maßter. The utmoſt exertion of the ſurveyor cannot rouſe them, and the labour performed is ſcarcely half what it

This would not be the caſe, were the— eyor to receivé in money the highway tax; he could then employ ſuch workmen as would do him jufiice, or, ft they were indolent

or inſolent, he could diſmiſs them.