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The Continent of Asia, according to Dr Sven Hedin in :ui article in "Popular Mechanics," is like the roof of a house irregular in shape, falling off gently iil the various direotione. From its crown rain water is pouring down in all directions. "No matter where the water courses arise they are,still, as they sweep onward, crossed here and there and again by almost innumerable paths, and countless likewise are the bridges." The railway, bridges, Dr. Hedin says, are built everywhere on the same principles but the primitive bridges with which' Asia abounds arc ot (lie most diverse character. He enumerates "bridges- of stone of tile or iron And convent, of chains' ropes and cable, of wood, posts, plants and branches, and (he natural rooks which in the course of time havo broken asunder from a mountain and tumbled down into some wild ravine,-whnro they now eerr* as spans for tbo-nalivca."-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 2
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