Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Streets and Highways in Foreign Countries: Reports From the Consuls of the United States on Streets and Highways in Their Several Districts, in Answer to a Circular From the Department of State
Only the state roads of Bohemia and the Tyrol are throughout or with but few exceptions constructed in the manner of regular highways (chausseen), that is to say provided with a stone foundation.
In the other provinces, as Moravia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Silesia, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Galicia, Bukowina, nearly all the state roads are constructed after the manner of country roads, that is Without any stone foundation and built exclusively of ballast (broken stone).
In Lower Austria, for instance, only two-tenths of the state roads are built upon a stone foundation.
These state roads in the above provinces have as a rule originated from the old parish roads and ways, which in some cases have only been corrected and widened.
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