On the plain of Yedo, besides the nearly continuous villages along the Causewayed road, there are islands, as they may be called, of villages surrounded by trees, and hundreds of pleasant oases on which wheat ready for the sickle, onions, millet, beans, and peas, were flourishing.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
With the price also per rod at which such party will engage to open, clear out, and causeway such other part of the same road as shall require to be Causewayed, and the last-mentioned price to include as well the opening and clearing out, as the causewaying such Road.
"Toronto of Old"
Henry Scadding