Excerpt from A Move for Better Roads Essays: Essays on Roadmaking and Maintenance and Road Laws, for Which Prizes or Honorable Mention Were Awarded Through the University of Pennsylvania by a Committee of Citizens of Philadelphia, With a Synopsis of Other Contributions and a Review I. That in the improvement Of roads, the Macadam system, consisting Of small angular fragments, in sizes not exceeding from two (2) to two and a half inches in their longest dimension, according to quality, should be used, wherever a stone surface is both practicable and justifiable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.