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Updated: June 27, 2025
What a mass of books on engineering and on ship-building and on road-making; what quantities of tables and ready-reckoners, all that civilization must have produced and depended upon. Time has preserved much verse, and not only the best by any means, more prose, particularly the theological prose of the end of the Roman time.
I never knew one of them right in my life yet in anything. How can they be right?" "But I think you are mixing up road-making and Church doctrine, Mr. Townsend." "I hope I may never be in danger of mixing up God and the devil. You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled. Remember that, Herbert Fitzgerald." "I will remember nothing of the kind," said Herbert.
The Albanians hastened to consolidate their position by holding two important National Congresses at Dibra and Elbasan, at which a scheme for national education was discussed, and the formation of Courts of Justice, road-making, and the purpose to which taxes were to be applied. These, they insisted, were to be used for national works.
Hard work and the excitement of responsibility in engineering our road-making operations had kept my visitor from dream-land away, and as we paddled leisurely down the beautiful lake, one of the few yet untouched by the lumbermen, I felt a healthier tone of mind than I had known since we had entered the woods.
The road beyond Solitary creek winds around the side of Honeysuckle Hill, a summit of considerable elevation, consisting of trap-rock. The country beyond that hill is more open and favourable for road-making. An inn has been built on a small flat, distant about twenty-three miles from Mount Victoria, and about halfway between that pass and Bathurst.
The deer are but ill at road-making, such tangled coverts, such clifty ledges, such wild leaps; for now the path threaded the jagged verge of precipices. The valley, a black abyss above which massive, purplish mountains loomed against a sky of pearly tints, was visibly narrowing. They all knew that presently it would become a mere gorge, a vast indentation in the mountain-side.
I replied, if he would fill the fine well-watered country we had passed over with people instead of sending them off to Kilwa, he would confer a benefit on visitors, but we had been starved on the way to him; and I then told him what the English would do in road-making in a fine country like this. This led us to talk of railways, ships, ploughing with oxen the last idea struck him most.
In winter time there would be draining, and road-making, and fencing, and many other forms of industry which could go on when the days are short and the nights are long.
We must anyhow join in there as soon as ever we get started buy cattle and kill, ourselves, so that besides the hides we provide ourselves with good, cheap meat." "Yes, yes, but the tannery won't swallow everything! We can afford to do some road-making." "No, we can't!" Pelle declared decisively.
The different classes of work for which bodies of men could be consistently organized, might ultimately become numerous; these following divisions of occupation may all at once be suggested: I. Road-making. Good roads to be made, wherever needed, and kept in repair; and the annual loss on unfrequented roads, in spoiled horses, strained wheels, and time, done away with.
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