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Updated: May 28, 2025
Again the long lines of stately oaks and firs, with a straight and apparently endless road between them, like the examples of perspective in beginners' drawing-books, but with the vanishing point always receding. 'I see they've turnpiked this road since I was on it before, observed the driver. 'Where? asked Andy, looking about.
I have seen women with straw hats that must have been well nigh a yard in diameter! Public Highways. In Holland, these are highways in fact as well as in name. They run in perfectly strait lines through the country, are about a yard higher than the meadows at their sides, and are lined by thick rows of willow-trees. They are turnpiked of course, as are all the roads in civilized Europe.
The road got fixed after a fashion, here and there a bridge mended, a ditch cleaned out, the loose stones removed, a hole filled up, or a short section "turnpiked" but the days were eight- hour days and they did not sit heavy upon us. The state does it much better now with road machinery and a few men.
Close by the side of this little stream was a small log-shanty, which had been erected by the people who had been employed by the men cutting out the new road, which, from this to the southern boundary of the Huron tract, was already cleared out, the full width of sixty-six feet, preparatory to its being turnpiked.*
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