Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 48
BRIDGE OF TEN THOUSAND AGES, FOOCHOW. A country of waterways must be acountry of bridges, but the beauty ofthe bridges in China is quite a surpriseto the traveller. The straight bridge ofthe illustration given here is built uponenormously solid piers, which are oftenmonoliths. The roadway is… … THE BRIDGE OF TEN THOUSAND AGES, FOOCHOW. A BRIDGE AT WAN HSIEN OF THE SINGLE ARCH TYPE. One enters almost every town or village,when travelling by water, under a bridgeof one arch, which may be anythingfrom fifteen to thirty feet high and ofa most graceful form. These bridges areconstructed of…
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