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«22 A TOUR TAROUGH
wee J
Ly, Bed Dok Ree KAEER
Stockholm. :
ARCHITECTURE, as well as other arts and {ciences,
is at this day in Sweden at lealt a century behind
England. I muft not, however, omit obferving their
method of building bridges over their broadeft and deep-
eft rivers,feveral of which we paffed in our Excurfion to
the northern parts of this kingdom. They are undoubt-
edly tremendous to the ftranger, who might imagine with
fome kind of dread that inftead ofmeafuring the breadth
of the waters he is about te crofs, he would fir! be obli-
ged to fathom the depth. They have no quay or wall on
either fide of the river on which to form a bafis for fuch a
building, it is therefore curioufly and well conftru&ted in
this manner. The thickelt end of a thick piece of timber,
the length and fhape of the maft ofa large fhip, is faflened
to the rock or mountain, the other end extended on the
water ;
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