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.
The Old way ne’re could do’t, ’twas meer Deceit,
As may be prov’d, it was a very Cheat.
Printed for a Publick good in the Year 1675.
An Old Title Page showing the antiquity of the Road Problem
THE ROAD
By
HILAIRE BELLOC