The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 109
enjoy them so much asa matter of course, that it is difficult in the absence of apractical application, to conceive the want and miseryattendant on the absence of any one of them. Yet, therewas a time when bridges were unknown; when the 96 PRIMITIVE BRIDGES. simple stepping-stones of the brook, or… … Primitive Bridge. The foregoing is a specimen of a rustic bridge of thecommonest sort beyond the stepping-stones. The annexedcut represents a rural bridge, one degree beyond theformer, in having a wooden railing for the convenienceand safety of the passengers going over the water.
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