Hints to Paviors; With an Introductory Review (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of course have its highest value, there no old pavement would have to be thrown aside, and its value lost to the community; the new plan would be encumbered with those expenses only which legitimately belong to it. All the plans, it will be observed, hitherto noticed, are of the nature of entire substitutions for the present defective paving that of the writer in the Mechanics' Magazine alone excepted, who merely proposes to substitute a better substratum. But we have now to request attention to a scheme which takes a middle, and perhaps, on the whole, a safer course, than any of these; a scheme which has for its object merely to remedy the defects of things as they are, and which is such, that it may be applied to any sort of pavement, whether of stone, mood, or any other material. It is contained in a small pamphlet, by Colonel Macerone, entitled " Hints to Paviors," printed in 1825, for private distribution, and now, with the author's permission, annexed to these remarks. Colonel M. commences his pamphlet with an account of the different sorts of pavement adopted in Rome (ancient and modern), Naples, Florence, Sienna, Milan, and other Italian cities. He shows, that though these have been no where excelled in point of durability, yet that they are only suited to their respective localities, and none of them calculated to be applied with advantage to the streets of such a city as London. He then touches on the plans of Mr. M'adam and Mr. Macnamara, but with a degree of reserve as to their demerits, dictated apparently by a sense of delicacy toVards projects to which his own must be considered as a rival. Of Mr. Finiayson's he says nothing, not being aware, it is presumed, of its existence. The plan which he finally submits, may be considered under three heads: ? First, C...