Critical And Social Essays Reprinted From the New York Nation
Critical And Social Essays Reprinted From the New York Nation
Wister Owen
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These of course became at once the great highways of the country, and the common roads relapsed into the ap parently complete insignificance in which we now find them. That the public has not always been content with the " dirt road, " however, was shown a few years ago by the number of plank roads that were con structed ; but it is safe to say that but very few people who have not seen the network of roads by which con- 150 Roads. tinental Europe and England are covered, or those of the Centra...l Park, in New York, have any adequate idea either of what a good road is, or what a luxury it is to those who live beside it or have occasion to use it. The notions of the farmers on this subject are revealed in the kind of thing which they dress up in spring and call a good road a bank of soft earth, slightly convex, and as far as contour goes sufficiently near perfection, but allowing wheels in wet weather to sink axle-deep in mud and in dry weather axle-deep in dust in other words, differing in no respect from the ad joining fields except in the absence of grass and in being smoothed off.
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