Even in the modern age, the width of a road is by no means standard. Today's roads vary from the wing-mirror brushing country lanes to vast 8- or 10-lane motorways, plus hard shoulders and central reservations.
muÂ·latÂ·to. n. pl. muÂ·latÂ·tos or muÂ·latÂ·toes Often Offensive. A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially one having one white and one black parent. [Spanish. , small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from. , mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin. .].
one with European and African ancestry. Is not only having  one white mother or father and another black colored like some ignorant idiots have said here. Mulatto cannot derive from  Mule. The phrase derrives from Muladi, which will be from Arabic  Muwaladeen, consequently white mixed with Moor.