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Communications moved slowly along unmetalled roads or up and down rivers.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
At the end of the year 1904-1905 there were in the whole province 7486 m. of road, 1516 m. of which were metalled and 3170 unmetalled, with 2799 m. of other tracks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
Down the muddy, grimy, unmetalled thoroughfare ran a horse-car line—the metals three inches above road level.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
In the west the rainfall is so scanty and in many parts wheeled traffic so rare that it is often wise to leave the roads unmetalled.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie
The broad, dusty, unmetalled roads are steeped in sunshine.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
