A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 218
its attraction to its numer-ous bridges, of which, by far, the largestis the liridge of the Kialto, above named.The smaller ones are seldom more than30 feet in span in a single arch, andthey are ascended on either side bysteps. None of very early times re-mains, but those of the seventeenth… … < H 25 s y, o wo a 2 365 306 BRIDGE bridge has its parapet cut into battlements of tlieforked or so-called Sealiger type, on eitlier side.A few bridges liave beeii built during the lasttwo centuries with dehberate decorative ettect,as in private or public parks; even having,in certain instances,…
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