Excerpt from A Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank RoadsMy visit and its object having become known, I had frequent applications for information. One or two brief articles which, in reply, I published in the newspapers, only invited further questions and more numerous and minute enquiries. And at last, although conscious that I had accumulated but scanty material for a treatise on this subject, I found myself in the position, either, with appa rent churlishness, to refuse reply to communications that had become too numerous for private correspondence or to refer my correspondents and the public to a brief vol ume, which should embody the information, such as it was, that I had Obtained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.