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 and leave the roads without funds to preserve them in proper order.

Your Committee cannot close their Report without directing the attention of the House to that part of Mr. James M'Adam's evidence, in which he states the practicability of converting the pavement of the streets of London into smooth and substantial roads; and your Committee have the satisfaction to inform the House that the experiment is about to be tried in two very different and distinct parts of the Metropolis, viz. in St. James's Square, and over Westminster Bridge and its boundary. This most desirable improvement has, as appears from the evidence of Mr. M'Adam, senior, and from that of Mr. William M'Adam, already been tried, and completely succeeded (as is well known to many members of the House) both at Bristol and Exeter, and is in progress of execution upon the paved ways in the county of Lancaster.

The benefit to the inhabitants of this large City by such an important improvement, in all its various advantages of comfort, convenience, and economy, can scarcely be appreciated; and your Committee hope that the plan about to be tried in two separate parts of London will be