Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 372
madeat the time of the construction of the Forth bridge. This bridge joins two sections of Scotland which had been previouslyseparated by an arm of the sea, which could only be crossed by a tediousferry. Even this ferry was frequently tied up by fog or by the strong galeswhich so often blow up the… … PECOS RIVER VIADUCT. part of the preliminary work. The estuary, for a distance of nearly fiftymiles, is never less than two miles wide, except at this one place, where it isbut little more than one mile wide, with the added advantage of having theisland of Inchgarvie nearly in the centre of the…
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