TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE PRESIDENT,
AND
THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
Having communicated to your Honourable
Board, some observations on making and repairing
roads, in February, 1819, I beg leave to add
the following, which have arisen from increased
experience on the subject, and also from a desire
of calling your attention to the effects of the
late severe winter on the roads of the country,
and the confirmation afforded to the opinions I
have endeavoured to introduce on the construction
of roads.
During the late winter, and particularly in the month of January, 1820, when the frost was succeeded by a sudden thaw, accompanied by the melting of snow, the roads of the kingdom broke up in a very alarming manner, and to an extent that created great loss and inconvenience by the interruption of communication, and the
