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Excerpt from The American Road: A Non-Engineering Manual for Practical Road Builders Classes for whom intended. Whether pursued with formal instruction or not, the material here collected will have great usefulness to graduate civil engineers who have given little attention to matters most characteristic Of high way work, yet are called upon to assist in developing our national road system. It is also aimed to especially assist that larger group, perhaps found in less responsible positions, who possess a limited tech nical education. Engaged in road-work, their lack of informa tion on its numerous and complicated phases is discovered. This is a severe disadvantage to themselves, and also to the public in whose service they are, and whose interests they should be Specially competent to safeguard. 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.