Lives of the Engineers, With An Account of Their Principal Works: Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
Lives of the Engineers, With An Account of Their Principal Works: Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain
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Indeed, its extreme narrowness, notwith- standing the attempts made to widen it, eventually led to the removal of the bridge, and the substitution of a new one of a single arch on the same site some twenty years ago.
The great convenience of bridges gradually led to their erection along many of the principal routes through the country. In the first place they superseded fords ; and when the art of bridge-building had become more advanced, they superseded ferries — always an incon- venient, and ...often a dangerous, method of crossing rapid rivers. The bridge brought the inhabitants of certain districts into immediate coimection with those on the opposite bank of the river flowing between them, and enabled them freely to hold intercourse and exchange produce with each other; and the public advantages of this improved means of communication were found so great as to lead many benevolent and thoughtful men, in those early days, to bequeath large sums of money, for the purpose of building and maintaining bridges ; in like manner as public benefactors, in after- times, left money to build and endow churches and hos- pitals.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Indeed, its extreme narrowness, notwith- standing the attempts made to widen it, eventually led to the removal of the bridge, and the substitution of a new one of a single arch on the same site some twenty years ago.
The great convenience of bridges gradually led to their erection along many of the principal routes through the country. In the first place they superseded fords ; and when the art of bridge-building had become more advanced, they superseded ferries — always an incon- venient, and ...often a dangerous, method of crossing rapid rivers. The bridge brought the inhabitants of certain districts into immediate coimection with those on the opposite bank of the river flowing between them, and enabled them freely to hold intercourse and exchange produce with each other; and the public advantages of this improved means of communication were found so great as to lead many benevolent and thoughtful men, in those early days, to bequeath large sums of money, for the purpose of building and maintaining bridges ; in like manner as public benefactors, in after- times, left money to build and endow churches and hos- pitals.
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