...imports. The state of communication previous to that time has been celebrated in the well-known couplet: Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up both hand» and bleu General Wade. Early in the present century, roads, the cost of which has been...

...imports. The state of communication previous to that time has been celebrated in the well-known couplet : Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up both hands and bless General Wade. Early in the present century, roads, the cost of which has been...

...imports. The state of communication previous to that time has been celebrated in the well-known couplet: Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up both hands and bless General Wade. Early in the present century, roads, the cost of which has been...

...modern engineering. The former, notwithstanding the celebrated couplet in its constructor's praise,— " Had you seen these roads before they were made, " You would lift up your bauds and bless General Wade"— was still, I believe, bad enough to give peculiar emphasis to that...

...who practically constructed some of the best roads in that country. The poet says — " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade." At the present time an agitation for the improvement of the highways...

...their ways, — more properly, to make roads out of their capital into their rural districts, — the famous lines on General Wade's roads in the Highlands...roads before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade." The roads are formed generally by parallel lines of ditches, here and...

...bivouac, when visiting the workmen, or inspecting the progress of distant operations, f " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your eyes, and bless General Wade !" FALLS OF FOYERS. 231 A heavy and continuous fall of rain imprisoned...

...make." Salebrœ means " the rough places" (which used to be there), and one may appropriately compare Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your hands and bless Genera! Wade. Vol. ip 27,1. 13 _(' D. to the 11' ; p. 10,1. 7 from foot, in 6th edit.),...

...JAMES SINTOK. Eastfield, Musselburgh, NB Years ago somewhere I read these lines : — • If you had seen these roads before they were made. You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade. Which is not improbable. Are they in Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' Î...

...admirer of the roads which Marshal Wade opened through the Scottish Highlands : " Oh, had you only seen these roads before they were made, You would lift up your eyes and bless Marshal Wade !" His military road is said to have done more for the civihzation of the...