Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 96
-times was thecause of successive accidents, now happily at an end bythe construction of a single arch beneath which thefloods rise freely, M. Jourdain tells us, in Paris atravers les Ages, that the Petit Pont fell in 1206, 1280,1296, 1325, 1376, and 1393 ; but the most remarkable ofall its… … A Voyage round the Island. 55 their strength, for beneath the arches, and also at theends of the piers, there were strong wooden scaffoldings,like those supporting the pump that Meryon drew.Now it so happened in that year 1718, in the monthof April, that a woman had lost her son by drowning,and…
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