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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
e is that thrown across the Rhine by Julius Cæsar, and described in his commentaries, over which description many a schoolboy has puzzled his brain in futile efforts to comprehend. Timber is undoubtedly the most ancient and most ready material, but less durable. Probably the best specimen of a wooden bridge now existing is that over the Rhine, at the fall of Schaff haveen. The best collection of bridges is across the Thames at London, for Black friars, Westminster, Waterloo, London, and Southwark or Trafalgar, are all splendid examples of different classes. The construction of metal bridges is particularly owing to the skill of British architects. They are found to be durable, safe, and less expensive than others,--the only objection laying in the expansion and contraction of the material by being exposed to different extremes of temperature. Modern skill has, however, overcome this difficulty, and now they are looked upon as the best and most desirable bridges in use. This