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 165
cation across the river, but by a circuitous route by wayof London bridge. A bridge, in those parts, would be toogigantic an undertaking; for it would be necessary thatthe arch or arches should be lofty enough to allow regularships to pass beneath them. It was, therefore, manyyears ago, the object… … THE THAMES TUNNEL. 153 ing will illustrate the advantages proposed to be attainedby the construction of some mode of communication be-tween the opposite shores of the river, at some spot east-ward of London bridge, and westward of Greenwich. Thefigure is a slight map of the Thames, at that part.…
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