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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 15 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24938 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 69 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 New 5 Road 4 United 4 Ohio 3 road 3 illustration 3 York 3 Washington 3 Virginia 3 States 3 River 3 Mr. 3 England 3 Cumberland 3 Creek 2 way 2 surface 2 material 2 highway 2 West 2 State 2 St. 2 Pennsylvania 2 Park 2 Kentucky 2 John 2 Indians 2 Hill 2 Fort 2 Canterbury 2 America 1 water 1 truck 1 traffic 1 town 1 stone 1 roman 1 return 1 public 1 place 1 nature 1 mile 1 law 1 land 1 indian 1 great 1 gravel 1 good 1 fig 1 concrete Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2590 road 706 mile 685 way 560 day 554 time 519 man 503 place 466 highway 454 land 453 country 452 year 452 surface 428 stone 408 side 401 water 391 part 367 material 361 foot 360 river 349 horse 337 town 333 hill 327 line 284 house 274 course 273 route 272 track 261 point 256 city 250 state 248 tree 246 church 245 valley 244 traffic 230 work 230 name 228 condition 219 soil 206 use 201 gravel 198 vehicle 198 illustration 197 ground 188 path 185 century 180 people 178 case 176 construction 173 inch 158 truck Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1527 _ 596 Road 316 Old 277 St. 261 Ohio 249 Braddock 244 Virginia 213 Kentucky 209 River 207 New 192 Cumberland 192 Canterbury 190 England 176 Mr. 169 Fort 159 West 159 Indians 143 Winchester 139 Washington 134 | 132 John 127 Creek 123 Hill 116 Thomas 115 Pennsylvania 111 States 107 America 105 York 105 North 101 General 100 King 99 United 98 Sir 91 London 90 Boone 89 State 88 . 80 French 79 Park 75 Itchen 74 Company 74 Colonel 73 March 73 Gap 72 County 70 macadam 70 Henry 64 Great 63 vol 63 War Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 3520 it 1577 we 1228 they 1025 he 875 i 632 them 493 you 382 us 306 him 142 me 102 itself 88 himself 77 one 67 themselves 66 she 28 ourselves 23 her 15 myself 12 herself 8 yourself 5 mine 4 ours 3 thee 2 yours 2 hers 1 yourselves 1 trodden 1 oneself 1 o 1 his 1 beautiful"--which Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 13415 be 3341 have 938 make 685 do 566 go 485 find 441 come 439 take 435 see 433 pass 407 say 389 use 383 give 369 follow 338 know 300 leave 277 get 269 build 254 keep 247 cross 244 become 232 run 230 call 224 carry 194 reach 190 bring 182 stand 178 lead 160 pay 159 require 159 lie 155 lay 151 travel 151 remain 151 begin 150 think 150 seem 148 meet 144 form 141 hold 139 place 133 fall 132 provide 132 look 132 draw 130 mark 129 write 128 employ 128 break 127 construct Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1664 not 708 great 681 so 649 more 638 good 550 other 531 very 485 such 466 only 464 first 457 up 446 as 443 well 442 many 441 old 421 most 413 here 400 out 393 now 351 much 342 then 324 same 304 little 303 large 299 long 277 about 265 early 259 far 241 down 238 even 236 new 231 high 225 also 219 still 212 just 211 few 208 public 197 small 196 necessary 196 last 185 there 174 less 169 off 164 on 161 again 160 own 156 often 155 soon 153 possible 153 never Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160 good 96 most 77 least 53 great 44 early 32 high 18 old 18 large 16 bad 13 fine 12 strong 12 near 10 low 8 wide 8 short 8 Most 7 cheap 6 rich 6 poor 6 long 6 heavy 6 easy 6 close 5 hard 5 farth 5 broad 4 steep 4 small 4 late 4 deep 4 brave 3 simple 3 noble 3 narrow 3 furth 3 fit 3 choice 2 wealthy 2 tough 2 thick 2 stout 2 slight 2 sharp 2 sad 2 quick 2 pure 2 mere 2 mean 2 lovely 2 intr Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325 most 26 least 21 well 1 near 1 long 1 lest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 road is not 5 road does not 3 country is very 3 material is usually 3 road was not 3 roads are now 3 roads were generally 3 surface is then 3 time is not 2 country has ever 2 country is not 2 course is not 2 highways are not 2 hills is here 2 land was generally 2 road is liable 2 road is more 2 road is too 2 road is very 2 road was only 2 roads are first 2 roads were very 2 stone is not 2 stone is then 2 stones do not 2 surface is sometimes 2 water does not 2 ways are mainly 1 _ are about 1 _ being variable 1 _ call _ 1 _ did not 1 _ has more 1 _ is about 1 _ is old 1 _ was shoreham 1 _ were scarce 1 countries are identical 1 country being well 1 country came in 1 country coming down 1 country do not 1 country find health 1 country is about 1 country is as 1 country is best 1 country is enough 1 country is entirely 1 country is flat 1 country is rough Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 road is not only 2 water does not readily 1 country is not so 1 course is not easy 1 highways are not accidental 1 house was not more 1 lines were not only 1 man was not very 1 men were not only 1 road are not far 1 road has no right 1 road is not objectionable 1 road is not uneconomical 1 road is not wide 1 road was no longer 1 road was not longer 1 roads are no worse 1 roads are not often 1 roads were not so 1 stone is not heated 1 surface is not suitable 1 time is not far 1 time is not real 1 water was not agreeable A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 29420 author = Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford) title = American Rural Highways date = keywords = United; concrete; fig; gravel; highway; illustration; material; place; road; surface; traffic summary = of Layer--Preparation of the Road--Trench Method--Surface Earth Foundation--Placing Concrete for Two-course Road--Curing The surface of the road is designed to turn water rapidly to the type of soil on the road and nature of existing surface, character of water-bonded and tar macadam, cinder and gravel road surfaces were The sand-clay road surface consists of a natural or artificial mixture =Characteristics.=--Sand-clay road surfaces do not have sufficient resistant to wear so that the road surface made from the gravel will secured throughout the entire area of the concrete road surface, =Placing Concrete for Two-course Road.=--The methods employed for the It is usual to specify that the brick used for road surfaces construction and maintenance, especially for road surfaces subjected Asphaltic concrete is a name given to a road surface mixture which is =Maintenance of Earth, Sand-clay, Gravel and Macadam Roads.=--The On brick and concrete roads, the principal work on the wearing surface id = 40759 author = Belloc, Hilaire title = The Old Road date = keywords = Canterbury; Dover; England; Farnham; Hill; Itchen; London; Medway; Old; Park; Road; St.; Straits; Wey; Winchester; illustration; roman summary = sites: the cliff above the river Wey, the lonely peaked hill of St. Martha''s that answers it from beyond the stream, the cross-roads on Now, on its way from Winchester to Canterbury, the Old Road passes, V. In crossing a river-valley, the Road makes invariably for the point modern road follows that valley, passes through New Alresford, and modern high-road also corresponds with the old way for something like that the Old Road in crossing a valley always chooses a place where The Old Road being originally the only track along these hills was crossing-place, and carried the Old Road across the tide-way of the After crossing the river it is a road all the way, passing sixteen miles from Canterbury, following the track of the Old Road, probability of Old Road passing south of hill at, 106 (note); valley of, track of Old Road through, 137 (map). id = 44684 author = Cartwright, Julia title = The Pilgrims'' Way from Winchester to Canterbury date = keywords = Archbishop; Bishop; Canterbury; Church; England; Henry; Hill; John; Kent; King; Lord; Park; Pilgrims; Sir; St.; Surrey; Thomas; illustration; way summary = pilgrims often left the original road to visit churches and shrines in Three hundred and seventy years have passed since the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury was swept away, and the martyr''s ashes were In those old days the pilgrims who came to Canterbury approached the Pilgrims'' Way. A very ancient path it is, older far than the days of To-day an old gateway near the church of St. Bartholomew and some fragments of the monastery wall are the only Along this pleasant Surrey hill-side the old Canterbury pilgrims The Pilgrims'' Way ran through Albury Park, passing close to the old We have followed the Pilgrims'' Way over Hampshire Downs and Surrey hills traveller find as he follows the Pilgrims'' Way along the chalk hills at the foot of the hills, close to the Pilgrims'' Way. Old houses and the old track of the Pilgrims'' Way which passed between these woods and id = 33706 author = Hulbert, Archer Butler title = The Future of Road-making in America date = keywords = Government; Jersey; New; States; United; good; great; material; road; stone; surface; water summary = church; good roads make it possible for a larger proportion of country the cost of new roads as follows: The state pays twenty-five per cent, Whether the road be constructed of earth, stone, or gravel, steep grades condition of thousands of miles of earth roads in the United States. communities to build good stone roads, a surface of gravel may than broken stone or gravel of good quality, and consequently roads made The greatest obstacles to good stone road construction in most places in The materials employed for surfacing roads should be both hard and If a road is built of tough, hard stone, and if the binding material has A mile of broken stone road, fifteen feet wide, costs in the state values of the different varieties of rock as road material, and good these roads constructed of stone macadam. construct eleven miles of stone road nine feet wide for $40,000? id = 41030 author = Hulbert, Archer Butler title = Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2) date = keywords = Creek; Erie; Genesee; March; Mr.; New; Ohio; River; Road; State; Susquehanna; Turnpike; Virginia; Washington; West; York; mile summary = the Potomac River all that the Erie Canal and the Cumberland Road returning home by way of the Great Kanawha and New Rivers, in order to northwestern Virginia to the Ohio River was Braddock''s Road; for this it; ..." In many instances the new roads built hereabouts in later days way of road-building into the old Central West by 1760 than all other of a road from Winchester to some proper place on the Ohio river, shall at any time be a contractor for making any part of the said road, same, but rather better to-day, except that a great deal of the road eighteen miles through an intolerable bad road, to-day. got to ---at the Black Horse, four and a half miles to breakfast. is in Wood County, West Virginia, eighteen miles by the Ohio River from The Great Genesee Road, as it was early known, began at old Fort id = 41067 author = Hulbert, Archer Butler title = Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1) date = keywords = America; Cumberland; Kentucky; Lancaster; Mr.; New; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; River; Road; States; United; Washington; York; indian summary = road passed along declivities or over hills, the path was in some places The soft roads of the summer time were useless so far as heavy loads of The real work of opening roads in America began, of course, on the Thus the typical pioneer road even before the day of wagons was a old routes of travel were often very wide, especially in wet places; in Traveling by stage, except on the half dozen good roads then the said road or any part thereof with more than six horses, nor shall hundred and six miles of these roads in New York State alone, and the The route pursued was the old state road begun in 1785 running through Hagar''s-town; being, like them, on the high road to the western country, "Anything seems a good road to you where the horse will not have to id = 41143 author = Hulbert, Archer Butler title = Boone''s Wilderness Road date = keywords = Boone; Creek; Cumberland; Fort; Gap; Henderson; Indians; John; Kentucky; New; North; Ohio; River; Road; Virginia; Walker; West summary = man''s road by the first white army that ever crossed the Ohio River into Virginians secured a grant of land south of the Ohio and directly west troops which conquered the land between the Ohio River and the Great at a new settlement at the mouth of Otter Creek on the Kentucky River Tennessee River to the Shawnee Indian towns on the Ohio, which path they north, crossing some of the head branches of the Kentucky River over a the Cumberland Mountains and the Ohio River, now the state of Kentucky. and Kanawha Rivers, where the Ohio Company''s grant of land was made. Boone''s Road followed this path northward, whereupon, leaving the Indian Road was attacked by Indians not far from the Kentucky border. of the Indian nations which lay between the Ohio River and the Great first portion of the land north of the Ohio River to come under the id = 41152 author = Hulbert, Archer Butler title = Braddock''s Road and Three Relative Papers date = keywords = America; Braddock; Creek; Cumberland; Duquesne; England; Fort; French; General; Indians; Men; Mr.; New; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Road; Virginia; Washington summary = Braddock Washington''s little force retraced their steps over the road Sending Braddock and his army to Virginia against the French on the Ohio Braddock had crossed half of the Atlantic his Quartermaster-General, St. Clair, had passed all the way through Virginia and Maryland to Fort Braddock to Sir John Robinson from Fort Cumberland, June 5: Braddock''s army under Halket and Dunbar proceeded to Fort Cumberland road very Mountanious, March''d 11 Miles, when we came to a River call''d Regiments--An Indian came in 6 days from the French Fort, and assured us to make the least move to provide an Indian army for Braddock''s use. Braddock''s Run, a mile and more east of Fort Necessity, in Great army had crossed and marched about a mile, Braddock received a note from advanced so far as to kill a French officer within half a mile of Fort description of routes converging on Braddock''s Road at Fort Cumberland id = 28607 author = Potter, Burton Willis title = The Road and the Roadside date = keywords = Allen; CHAPTER; Massachusetts; highway; land; law; nature; public; road; town; way summary = Economy and public convenience require roads to be kept up the year Distinction between town ways and public highways. "The law of the road" applies to private ways. road-way upon adjoining land. town appropriated money liberally for highway repairs, the roads Many of the old roads in our towns and cities have become public either town ways or public highways. commissioners, they are public highways.[4] Suppose a new road is public way over his land, neither the city nor town authorities nor his own land, if that is the best way of clearing the road of The roads are for the use of travellers, and a city or town is not way has not the right of a traveller on a public road to go outside repair, whereas in the case of a public way the traveller is under alongside of the road-bed of some of the public ways, so that every id = 18878 author = United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee title = Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation date = keywords = Commerce; truck summary = RETURN-LOAD BUREAUS TO SAVE WASTE IN TRANSPORTATION. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE BRING SHIPPER AND TRUCK OWNER TOGETHER. A Return-loads Bureau can be established by a Chamber of Commerce Defense, Return-Loads Bureaus have been established in 15 cities. to motor-truck owners in the different cities. a week the truck would be available under the return-loads plan, its the bureau in each city knows just what trucks are available in the The telephone company should be asked to list the Return-Loads Bureau under the title "Return Loads" in the local directory and truck owners carry back to the city from which the truck brought a load or where a service should be arranged with bureaus in other cities, so that a truck Return-Loads Bureau was established there) and stated it intended to just as quickly as possible, the organization of Return-Loads Bureaus in bring loads by truck from other points telephone to the bureau in order id = 19757 author = United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee title = ''Return Loads'' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running. date = keywords = return summary = use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests vehicles empty, return-load bureaus are established. National Defense, through its Highways Transport Committee and its Return Load Bureaus, Rural Express, Cooperation with Federal Railroad of highways transport as will eliminate making trips with part loads, placing it on motor trucks operating over the highways, millions of deliver a load, they return empty, whereas there are shippers who interests of both, hence the return-load bureaus are of mutual calling "Return loads" or the telephone number of the bureau, shippers trucks and can place them at the service of the shippers on short highways can not be of service both to the country and its shippers. local return-load bureau and the possibilities of this type of as quickly as possible an organization of return-load bureaus in all cooperating with the return-load bureaus. and encourage the work of return-load bureaus. id = 19758 author = United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee title = Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense date = keywords = New; York summary = use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests [Illustration: MAP SHOWING REGIONAL AREAS Highways Transport Committee they might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways Transport chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee, Council of National BEFORE THE REGIONAL CHAIRMEN OF THE HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT that historical line of water and rail transportation the basis for a waterways and highways to get a perfect transportation system for this Still with the coming of the railroad we thought of transportation as we thought of transportation as a unity of railroads. public transportation as meaning essentially the railroads. the steam engine in its time, making possible a tool for the waterway waterway and highway have been, as regards the tools for their use, on vessels upon the Hudson River was never as great, never so new or well transportation--railway, water way, and highway--that they are one, id = 19759 author = United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee title = Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense date = keywords = States; United summary = they might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways Transport chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee, Council of National Those men built the roads of France. highways than it would to do the same transportation work by railroad. I have thought of the men who will come back after the war. nation has had a problem to deal with the returning soldier. Now, when this thing is over, our men will begin to come back into the small communities in which men have small acreages of land, not to world by highways, by developing rivers, and by railroads. thought and money into the problem of making this country what it can The United States is not going to be after the war as it has been. That is a thing that you sober men of business are already thinking make this country a new land in which these boys who come back will id = 19799 author = United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee title = The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation. date = keywords = Defense; State summary = possible use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, hauling to market, but adoption of the rural motor express will enable The use of the motor truck for farm transport is growing regular daily service over the main highways from farm to city and from the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State The highways transport committee of the Council of National Defense is motor-truck transportation in the marketing of farm produce. urges the adoption of motor-truck transportation facilities in order to The preliminary surveys by the highways transport committee in sections enthusiastically indorse the plan and wherever rural motor express lines this State has been made by the highways transport committee and shows The rural motor express is not, however, a development to meet an The state highways transport committees are organizing local committees 1. Experience of existing motor-truck lines in the locality.