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. .].
At that time, and for approximately 250 years afterwards, the word Creole, for the most part, only signified that a person was born in the new World. And it did not refer to color or race. For a time, in the Catholic colonies the term Mulatto was predominate because there were no white women to produce unmixed white offsprings.