6^« … lliPlllb Drainage.—A system of thorough drainage, by which the water that nitersthrough the ground will be cut off from the soil beneath the roadway, to adepth of at least three feet below the bottom of the road covering, and bywhich that which fulls upon the surface will be speedily conveyed off,…
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