The Road

THE ROAD
Profit, Conveniency, and Pleasure, to the whole Nation.
Being a short Rational Discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, Concerning the
High-ways of ENGLAND:
Their Badness , the Causes thereof, the Reasons of those Causes , the impossibility of ever having them Well-mended according to the Old way of mending .
But may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to This New way ) substantially, and with very much Ease .
And so, That in the very depth of Winter there shall not be much Dirt , no Deep-Cart-rutts , or High-ridges ; no Holes , or Uneven Places ; nor so much as a loose stone (the very Worst of Evils both to Man and Horse) in any of the Horse-Tracts .
Nor shall any Person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles Riding.
To mend High-ways, loe Here the way is shewn,
No better way than This, shall e’re be known:
A Firm and Certain way, of no great Cost,
In all wayes else their Labour’s wholly lost.