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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912. Excerpt: ... ROADS, PATHS AND BRIDGES CHAPTER I HISTORY OF ROAD BUILDING Savage man built no roads. His wants were few and of an individual character. When hunger dictated, he sought food in the forests, or in the streams and lakes, and soon came to know the regions where game and fish were most abundant. As time went on he came to know the best and most direct route to his sources of supply, and established for himself definite trails. As he began slowly to mount the ladder of civilisation his habitation became fixed, and communication with his own and other tribes led him to establish more definite routes of travel. Gradually his trails were widened so as to admit the passage of beasts of burden. These widened trails were no doubt our first primitive roads. At a much later stage in human development 3 came the wheeled vehicle, and the war chariot was no doubt the precursor of the modern wagon. In history we find the chariot men. tioned as early as war itself. The Bible tells of the pursuit of the fleeing Israelites by Pharaoh with 600 picked chariots and a host of others. It is evident from this early general use of the chariot that roads, even in a somewhat modern sense, must have been a necessity at a very early period in our civilisation. The earliest authentic record which we have of stone-surfaced roads is found in Egypt. A little to the east of the Great Pyramids of Ghizeh have been discovered the remains of a great causeway, more than a mile in length. This is supposed to be a portion of the Great Highway built by King Cheops for the purpose of affording a passage across the sands for the transportation of the stone used in the construction of the Great Pyramids. This is no doubt the road on which Herodotus tells us that the Great King employed 100,000 men fo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150701245
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150701242
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr

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