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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 9

The continent of Asia, according to Dr. Sven Hedin in an article in Popular Mechanics, is like the roof of a house, irregular in shape, falling off gently in the various directions. 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 beer 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 prineipels, but the primitive bridges with which Asia abounds are of the most diverse character. He enumerates “bridges of stone, of tile, of iron and cement, of chains, ropes and cable,_of_wood, posts, plants and branches, and rocks, which in Die course of time have broken asunder irom a mountain anct tumbled down into some wild ravine, where they now serve as spans for the natives.” Progandra removes painful corns; 1/6. —Advt.