Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ... In the year 1770, the county of Cardigan followed, and obtained an Act for widening and repairing several of the main roads between the principal places. In Glamorganshire, the main road from Cardiff, through Cowbridge, Bridge End, and Neath, to Swansea, was completed at an early period. In 1771 and 1779, other Acts extended the benefit to other roads, communicating in different directions with the main road of the Vale. Mails began to be conveyed by stage coaches, in August 1785; and in 1787, the first mail passed through the counties of Brecon, Caermarthen, and Pembroke, to Milford-Haven, and thence across the Channel to Waterford. "The gentlemen above the mountains" (says Mr. Hassall, in Pembrokeshire, p. 30) ' declined including their roads in any of the Acts obtained for the lower division of the county; alleging they could keep them in repair by statute duty: a sanguine idea which experience proved to be futile." However, in 1791, or 1792, an Act was obtained to connect, by improved roads, the towns of Haverfordwest, St. David's, Fishguard, Newport, and Cardigan. An Act was obtained for Radnorshire, about the same time as for the other counties. In describing the state and management of these roads, in 1794, Mr. Clark seems to have dipped his quill in gall deeper than usual. Many of his assertions, however, were not contradicted in the county; though many of his grounds of complaint were soon after removed. That in the formation of new roads, when parliamentary authority was obtained for the purpose, the old line of direction, up and down hill, has been too closely adhered to;--that private property has in too s. Wales, Vol. ii. B b many many instances been spared, when a round-about way over waste uplands presented itself;--tliat...
