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Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence — John Shaqi

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Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence

Name: Remarks on the Present System of Road Making: With Observations, Deduced from Practice and Experience, With a View to a Revision of the Existing Laws, and the Introduction of Improvement in the Method of Making, Repairing, and Preserving Roads, and Defending the Road Funds from Misapplication. Seventh Edition, Carefully Revised, With an Appendix, and Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, June 1823, with Extracts from the Evidence
Author: McAdam, John Loudon

McAdam, John Loudon

Macadam roads; Roads -- Great Britain

REMARKS

                             ON THE PRESENT

                      _SYSTEM OF ROAD MAKING, &c._




                           H. Bryer, Printer,
                      Bridge-street, Blackfriars.




                                REMARKS
                             ON THE PRESENT
                        _SYSTEM OF ROAD MAKING_;
                           WITH OBSERVATIONS,
                 DEDUCED FROM PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE,
WITH A VIEW TO A REVISION OF THE EXISTING LAWS, AND THE INTRODUCTION OF
                             IMPROVEMENT IN
         THE METHOD OF MAKING, REPAIRING, AND PRESERVING ROADS,
                                  AND
             DEFENDING THE ROAD FUNDS FROM MISAPPLICATION.
                            SEVENTH EDITION,
                       CAREFULLY REVISED, WITH AN
                               APPENDIX,
                                  AND
  REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 1823,
                   _WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE EVIDENCE_.


                      BY JOHN LOUDON MᶜADAM, ESQ.

         GENERAL SURVEYOR OF THE ROADS IN THE BRISTOL DISTRICT.


                               _LONDON_:

  PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER ROW.

                                 1823.




                             ADVERTISEMENT.


Since the Publication of the early editions of this Essay, the Author
has witnessed with very great satisfaction the amendment of a large
proportion of the Turnpike Roads, and some improvement of the Parish
Roads. That the reformation has not been more extensive and successful,
may be attributed to the error still persisted in by Trustees, of
continuing the services of persons as Road Surveyors, who are not only
altogether ignorant of the business they profess, but full of prejudices
in favour of their own erroneous practice.

Another and a greater error has been committed lately, in several parts
of the Country, and which has entirely arisen from the desire
entertained of using the new method of Road making. This very dangerous
error consists in employing persons who offer themselves as having been
instructed in Road making on scientific principles, without due inquiry
respecting their skill, industry, and moral character.

Among the many persons who present themselves to be instructed, a very
small proportion acquire a competent knowledge of their profession, and
this number is farther diminished by subsequent dismission for
negligence, drunkenness, and dishonesty.

Of these rejected and incapable persons, great numbers are spread over
the Country, soliciting employment; and many have been incautiously
engaged by Trustees, without inquiry either as to their character or
their ability in their profession.

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