Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554
.Dear St. Nicholas: Will you kindly tell me why thebridges of Japan are curved so much more than ours? Ihave often wondered whether it was simply for beauty orsome other reason. Your devoted reader, Muriel de V. Boyd. The curved bridges of Japan are of three kinds :(1) those known as spectacle… … extraordinary five-arch bridge over the nishekigawa, iwakuni, japan. Photograph copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, New York City. very high indeed; (3) the ordinary, one-arch,semicircular bridges.
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