tion, calculated on the present state of the traffic over the road. PLAN No. III. By this plan it is proposed to raise the valley fifty feet, to cut twenty-seven feet from the summit at Foster's Booth, and reduce the inclination from 1 in 16, 17, and 18, to 1 in 30, on the east side of the valley; and from 1 in 14 and 15 to 1 in 30, on the west side of the hill. The embankment would commence near the sixty-fourth milestone, and terminate at the turn of the road leading to Northampton. The mean expense of drawing a ton weight over the road, when improved in this manner, between the sixty-fifth milestone and the Crown Inn at Foster's Booth, as given at p. 443, would be 78 4715 pence: here the saving would be 3 ̊5942 pence on each ton, and for 170 tons it would be 27. 10s. 11d., which is interest for 18,4837. The estimate for this work, as detailed in p. 448, is 20,1447.; the loss would therefore be 1,6617. in making this alteration. PLAN NO. IV. By this plan it is proposed to raise the valley forty feet, to cut twenty-seven feet from the summit at Foster's Booth, and ten feet from the summit at the Angel. The embankment would extend from near the turn of the road to Lichborough to the upper angle of Mr. Drayson's osier plantation, and the lowering of the summit at Foster's Booth would extend into Cold Higham Fields, nearly similar to that in the first plan. All the rest of the road would remain as at present. If this improvement were made, the mean expense of drawing one ton over it between the sixty-fifth milestone and the Crown Inn at Foster's Booth, would be 79 8450 pence, as shown in p. 444: the saving, therefore, per ton, would be 2 2207 pence, and for 170 tons it would be 377 5190 pence; which would be interest for 11,4207. The estimated expense of this improvement, as detailed in p. 449, is 14,1717. The difference is 2,7517; which shows the amount of loss the public would sustain by completing the work here described. PLAN NO. V. By this plan it is proposed to raise the valley forty feet, to lower the summit at Foster's Booth twenty-seven feet, and the summit at the Angel eighteen feet. If this improvement was adopted, the new line would run along the south side of the present road to near the sand pits, where it would cross it obliquely, and entering a small ravine on the opposite side, it would cross the valley in a straight line for the upper angle of the osier plantation. At this point it would again cross to the south side of the present line, and follow the direction described in the first plan. The saving in expense of drawing a ton over this line of road, when made as above described, would be 5'0200 pence (p. 445), and for 170 tons it would be 475 39 pence, which would be interest for 25,8151. The estimated expense of this improvement, as detailed in p. 450, is 19,6077. The difference is 5,208, which shows the amount of profit the public would acquire by completing the works here described. Expense of drawing one ton by a stage coach over the present line of road from the sixty-fifth milestone to the Crown Inn at Foster's Booth. |