...to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground -will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coal, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.' This account, as is obvious,...

...owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by1 laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coal, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.' This account, as is obvious,...

..."rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchant" These ways were much...

...wheels. Then we had the contrivance illustrated in the next page. Lord Keeper North, in 1676, describes " rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw...

...the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts made with four ro\^ts fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldron of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchant." These ways were much...

...land damages for railroads. Roger North, writing in the year 1676, describes these tramways thus : " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coal." Along one of these colliery tramways the English cannon were posted at the...

...for land damages for railroads. Roger North, writing in the year 1676, describes these tramways thus: "The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of...and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlcts fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or...

...a great novelty, are thus described by Lord Keeper Guildford. " The manner of the carriage of coals is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down...straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or...

...first used? Roger North gives the following description of one railway at Newcastle, in 1680 : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that...

...Speaking of the conveyance of coals, he thus describes the " wagons and wagon ways," as he calls them : " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets, or wheels fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down...