width of the opening in the early part of 1870. The superstructure carries a road- which they had more than one hundred in use—in sections is 148 feet, each girder—which is of the ordinary lattice type way 31 feet 6 inches wide, and is formed of three lines of suited to the length of the wagons,… … and they cross the river at a clear height of 101 feet 6 inches in the work of construction that the engraving represents girders are riveted together over the centre of the pier, the above the ordinary water level. The piers of the bridge are and which shows the building yard of Messrs. Handyside…
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