Crossword-Solution: MACADAM 7 letters, 64 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

All was wild and solitary, and one might have declared it a scene untrodden by the foot of man, but for the telegraph posts and small piles of broken "macadam" at punctual intervals, and the ginger-beer bottles and paper bags of local confectioners that lent an air of civilisation to the road.

There are wagon-trails which East would rank as macadam roads; horse-trails that would compare favorably with our best bridle-paths; foot-trails in the fur country worn by constant use as smooth as so many garden-walks.

The roads were excellent, and made upon the MacAdam principle, whinstone having been brought for the purpose from the distance of several miles.

Kate, who was really a surprising lassie for her years, was taken off her mother’s hands by the old Lady Macadam, that lived in her jointure house, which is now the Cross Keys Inn.

There had been a small landslide from an open cut on one side and a mass of gravel and small boulders lay scattered on the smooth macadam.