Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 490
solid rock of limestone. The arch approaches thesemi-elliptical form; but the larger axis of the ellipses,which would be the chord of the arch, is many times longerthan the transverse. Though the sides of the bridge areprovided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yetfew men have resolution… … ON THE ROAD TO NATURAL BRIDGE (1889). ache. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable,that from below is delightful in the extreme. It is im-possible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be feltbeyond what they are here: on the sight of so beautiful anarch, so elevated, so light,…
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