Perak also possesses some 600 miles of excellentmetalled cart-road, and the length of completed road is annually increasing.
Since 1904 it has been laid out with metalled roads and many public and private buildings have been erected.
It was not metalled until 1859, and nearly all the buildings were frame.
Streets leading to the bridge have been graded and metalled over and are passable at all times.
A fair path runs up hillocks of red-yellow clay, metalled with rounded quartz and ironstone-gravel, roped with roots and barred with trees; their greatest elevation may have been 120 feet.
Yet there is nothing to stand in the way of a cheap tram; and perhaps this would cost less and keep better than a metalled road.
The author's remark that in India the roads are 'nowhere metalled' must seem hardly credible to a modern traveller, who sees the country intersected by thousands of miles of metalled road.
The main highways approaching Delhi are now excellent metalled roads.
A good metalled road, on which there is a tonga service, runs northwards from Dera Ismail Khán to Bannu.
There are good metalled roads to Dera Ismail Khán and Kohát, and also one on the Tochí route.
The fine metalled roads from Ambála to Kálka, and Kálka to Simla have lost much of their importance since the railway was brought to the hill capital.
The path from Sharm Yáhárr crosses the hard sands of the maritime plain, metalled with the natural macadam of the Desert.
At the bottom of this noble Límán, the Kolpos so scandalously abused by the ancients, are three sandy buttresses metalled with water rolled stones, and showing traces of graves.
The well metalled road to Benares was a mass of slush.
From the gate a broad, red, well-metalled path extended, on each side of which were beds of fresh grass that would have formed a paradise for cows.
Here for a considerable distance the road was terraced out in the hill-side, formed of hard carboniferous limestone rock, and a clear metalled roadway was obtained from twenty to twenty-five feet wide throughout.
A metalled road follows that bank under the shadow of the precipice for the space of about half a mile.
The character of the soil favours the well-metalled avenue which leads within the fringe of poplars and fruit trees and forms the principal artery of this fertile and populous zone.
Above the entrance to the cleft the stream flows between humbler slopes; but they are still of rock, and the metalled road, which follows the western shore at no great distance, is without a prospect on either side.
There were bridges broken in the back with a ford alongside them; there were yawning culverts and parallel tracks avoiding the horrors of the metalled way.
After jolting along this track for some distance, we again struck a metalled road.
The well-metalled and well-maintained chaussée, which we had been following, pursues its course to the confines of the Turkish frontier at the station of Sarikamish.
Metalled roads are scarce in these distant provinces; it may surprise the reader to learn that the road we travelled over from Akhaltsykh was only completed in 1892.
The more populous quarters are divided into a western and an eastern half, at first by the broad, metalled road which comes from Tiflis, and, further south, by the central park.
From this port starts the principal avenue of communication between Turkish Armenia and the sea; and beyond the mountains, on the south of this wild coast range, now traversed by a metalled road, lie the plains of the Armenian tableland.
The metalled highway ended at Meerut, and I had to perform the remainder of my journey to Peshawar, a distance of 600 miles, in a palankin, or doolie.
Very few are paved of metalled and nearly all are badly kept; speaking generally, the government spends nothing in keeping either the roads or canals in repair.
The kind that wants to retrench and institute reforms--railways and metalledroads and so forth?
They had come to the seaward verge of the woodland, where the trees and scrub rose like a wild hedgerow on one side of a broad, well-metalled highway.
There is no mistaking the terminus of the metalled highway.
Towards the north-east a good metalled road leads gradually to the summit of the hills and on through Hebron to Jerusalem.
The metalled road to Amman crosses the Jordan at the Ghoraniyeh Bridge, and reaches the hills at Shunet Nimrin.
A splendid bridge spans the swollen torrent of the more formidable Markunda, and the well-metalled highway now cuts a wide straight swath through inundated jungle.
It ismetalled for much of its length with a substance peculiar to the country, known as kunkah.
There is no railway, but the metalled road from Kotah to the British cantonment of Deoli passes through the state.
Arakan is in the worst position of all, for it is connected with Burma by neither railway nor river, nor even by a metalled road, and the only way to reach Akyab from Rangoon is once a week by sea.
Kabul is now connected by well-planned and metalled roads with Afghan Turkestan on the west, with the Oxus and Bokhara on the north, and with India on the east.
Her random wanderings brought her to a stretch of un-metalled road, and at the road's edge, some few hundred yards away a man on a white horse had drawn rein at sight of her.
The astonished animal bounded forward, stumbled on a round stone, and came down on her knees, pitching Evelyn over her head into the dust of the metalled road.
The Hebron road, which could keep Beersheba supplied if the railway was cut, was in good order, but in other parts there were no roads at all, except several miles of badly metalled track from Junction Station to Julis.
The gunners came into action at half-past two, and infantry moved to the left to get on to the Ramallah-Bireh metalled road which runs at right angles to the trunk road between Nablus and Jerusalem.
There was not onemetalled roadway, and only comparatively light loads could be transported in wheeled vehicles.
So much of its common character remained: it was treeless, wide, and the most of it neglected; never metalledduring all the one hundred and fifty years which have transformed English highways.
For many miles of its course it is identical if not with high-roads at least with metalled lanes, as we had already found between Itchen Stoke and Bishop Sutton, and very commonly with unmetalled tracks or paths.
The slipperiness of the metalled and paved roads in this part of Flanders increased my uneasiness.
Most of the metalled or flint roads of Flanders had a ditch on either side, into which we took occasional headers.
With the exception of the main metalled or pave roads, which invariably have ditches running along each side, the majority had no culverts of any description.
Some of them are metalled in certain sections, and again in other sections are no more than lanes, and again no more than footpaths, as you proceed along their miles of way; but their exact design awfully impresses the mind.
We drove only onmetalled roads and our first overnight stop was at a place called Wadi Mahomadi where the only signs of habitation were our huts.
The routes had been well established by this time and the coaches left the metalled roads and went across the desert in a fairly straight line from point A to point B.
The workshops were some 40 miles south of Baghdad and a mile or so from the Arab town; the town was out of bounds to us but a metalled road from there passed between our camp and the workshops; we only ever saw military traffic on it.
A short distance within the hills our track struck the great metalled road that runs from Birijik to Urfa.
Henceforth to the end of our journey we saw no more metalled roads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metalled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
