Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 227
age. It was to the ends of thesechains of bars that the cables of the bridge werefastened. The weight of the men and horses onthe bridge is thus really sustained by the stones andanchors on the hill-side, far back from the towers. 694 THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. [July, After the towers had been built and… … of all. To makethe cables andput them There were, besides these travelers, two moreropes placed side by side. On these were laidshort pieces of oak, thus making a foot-bridgeon which the workmen could cross the river. One of the pictures shows this slender bridge,that extended over the tops of the…
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