of the Northern Road, and is properly called the Coach Road … and this indeed is a most frightful Way, if we take it from Hatfield, or rather the 杭州桑拿信息网 Park Corners of Hatfield House, and from thence to Stevenage, to Baldock, to Biggleswade and Bugden. Here is that famous Lane call’d Baldock Lane, famous for being so impassable that the Coaches and Travellers were oblig’d to break out of the Way even by Force, which the People of 杭州水疗spa养生 the Country not able to prevent, at length placed Gates and laid their lands open, setting men at the Gates to take a voluntary Toll, which Travellers always chose to pay, rather than plunge into Sloughs and Holes, which no Horse could wade through.
“This terrible Road is now under Cure 杭州足浴价格 by the same Methods, and probably may in Time be brought to be firm and solid.”
In regard to the turnpike system in general he says:—
“The Benefit of these Turnpikes appears now to be so great, and the People in all Places begin to be so sensible of it, that it is incredible 杭州桑拿生活网 what Effect it has already had upon Trade in the Counties where the Roads are completely finished; even the Carriage of Goods is abated, in some Places, 6d. per hundred Weight, in others 12d. per hundred, which is abundantly more Advantageous to Commerce than the Charge paid amounts 杭州约口spa联系方式 to….
“Besides the benefits accruing from this laudable Method we may add, The Conveniency to those who bring fat Cattle, especially Sheep, to London in the Winter from the remoter counties of Leicester and Lincoln, where they are bred: For before, the Country Graziers were obliged to 杭州夜网hzyw sell their Stocks off in September and October when the Roads began to be bad, and when they generally sell cheap; and the Butchers {89}and Farmers near London used to engross them, and keep them till December and January, and then sell them, though not an Ounce fatter 杭州足疗按摩论坛 than before, for an advanced price to the Citizens of London; whereas now the Roads are in a Way to be made everywhere passable the City will be serv’d with Mutton
almost as cheap in the Winter as in the summer, and the profit of the advance will be to the Country Graziers, who are the 杭州丝袜mm original Breeders and take all the Pains.
“This is evidenc’d to a Demonstration in the Counties where the Roads are already repair’d, from whence they bring their fat Cattle, and particularly their Mutton, in Droves, from Sixty, Seventy or Eighty Miles without fatiguing, harrassing or sinking the Flesh of the Creatures, even in the Depth of the Winter.”
Whether or not the fat cattle and the sheep were really able to do their long walk to London without fatigue and loss of flesh, it is certain that the naturally bad condition of the roads leading to 杭州桑拿按摩论坛 London was made worse by the “infinite droves of black cattle, hogs and sheep” which passed along them from Essex, Lincolnshire and elsewhere. When the roads were being continually trodden by the feet of large heavy bullocks, “of which,” says Defoe, “the numbers that come this way”—that 杭州按摩哪里最好 is, out of Lincolnshire and the fens—”are scarce to be reckon’d up,” the work done by the turnpike commissioners in the summer w