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Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation. : Being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England: their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending. But may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease. And so, that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges; no holes, or uneven places; nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts. Nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding