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water ; a fecond timber Of the fame length 1s placed upon
it, extending a fathom beyond it, and fo a third, and
fourth, to the middle of the ftream, where it meets with
another feries of timber-mafts from the oppofite fide, and
this without any cement, but merely refting upon each
other ; fo that in pafling this, as it were, floating bridge,
the elafticity is fometimes-fo’ great that about the middle
it appears to {wing and the weight of either horfe or car-
riage dips it under the furface of the water; a circuftance
a
amet a ties dangerous, that a perfon
unaccuftomed to fuch bridges may well
imagine that it
will rife no more. I have frequently feen travellers ftop
and water their horfes on the middle of the bridge when
they already touch the water from the fubfiding of the
platform. . When freed from the weight of the carriage
or paflenger it unmediately rifes to its proper height... -
—s’
_ Were it not for the intenfe cold and drifted now, a
paflage over the rivers and lakes in winter would be as
much more commodious for the traveller, as it is for the
bufinefs and intercourfe of the inhabitants, who are fafely
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