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now set himself to a task not less hard and not less urgent, the improvement of the paving of the London
miscalled "Macadamised". McAdam was a long-headed Scotch road surveyor at Bristol who died in 1836
age of eighty one, and deserved to have inscribed on his monument "He found England's roads cobbleand left them Macadam".
his love of horses in mind Edward Fordham was a friend and supporter of Macadam in his quest to turn
d roads into a smooth surface which would be kinder to the horses' hooves.
