BRIDGES OF ASIA.
The Continent of Asia, according to Dr. Sven Hedin in an article in Popular Mechanics, ls 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 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, hut the primitive bridges with which Asia abounds are of the mo6t diverse character. He enumerates “bridges of stone, of tile, of iron, and cement, of chains, ropes, and cables, of wood, posts, plants, and branches, and the natural rocks which in the course of time have broken asunder from .a mountain . and tumbled down into some wild ravine, where they now serve as spans for the, natives.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 October 1924, Page 10
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