These are the roads I mean, and thus divided under their several
denominations.

To the question, what I would do to them I answer -

(1). For the sixty-seven miles of high post-road I propose to throw
up a firm strong causeway well-bottomed, six feet high in the middle
and four feet on the side, faced with brick or stone, and crowned
with gravel, chalk, or stone, as the several counties they are made
through will afford, being forty-four feet in breadth, with ditches
on either side eight feet broad and four feet deep; so the whole
breadth will be sixty feet, if the ground will permit.

At the end of every two miles, or such like convenient distances,
shall be a cottage erected, with half an acre of ground allowed,
which shall be given gratis, with one shilling per week wages, to
such poor man of the parish as shall be approved, who shall, once at
least every day, view his walk, to open passages for the water to
run into the ditches, to fill up holes or soft places.

Two riders shall be allowed to be always moving the rounds, to view
everything out of repair, and make report to the directors, and to
see that the cottagers do their duty.

(2). For the 140 miles of cross-road a like causeway to be made,
but of different dimensions--the breadth twenty feet, if the ground
will allow it; the ditches four feet broad, three feet deep; the
height in the middle three feet, and on the sides one foot, or two
where it may be needful; to be also crowned with gravel, and one
shilling per week to be allowed to the poor of every parish, the