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 124
es. The approaches to each end ofthe pier are seventy feet wide, and are carried over a seriesof semi-circular brick arches. On the Surrey side, theapproach is formed by thirty-nine of these arches, besidesan elliptical arch of twenty-six feet span over the narrow-wall-road, so that the total… … There is a magnificent bridge, called the Dean-bridgewhich has been lately thrown across the opening formedby the river, or water of Leith, to the north of the city ofEdinburgh, which river is called the Dee. It has beenerected from a design by Mr. Telford. It consists of twoseries of four arches…
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