THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, JUNE Isr, 1835. 

 No. 30.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. V. 



THE NEW BRIDGE ACROSS THE PLYM. 



Our engraving this month is an elevation of the 

 bridge about to be erected across the Plym, in lieu 

 of the former bridge, which has been called from its 

 birth to its destruction New Bridge ; our devil, by- 

 accident, whipped in the name of Long Bridge, at 

 the head of the article in the last number, though 

 Long Bridge, as we then shewed, is not to be taken 

 down or altered, and will remain the same as it has 

 ever been. This new erection is the design of Mr. 

 James Green, of Exeter, Civil Engineer, and Surveyor 

 of the county bridges in Devon. Some years have 

 been occupied in controversy, whether a new erection 

 was required at all, whether a mode of widening the 

 existing bridge might not be adopted at less expense ; 

 whether the new erection if adopted should not be 

 of iron, so as to admit of a greater degree of incli- 

 nation to the southward than can be obtained by a 

 stone structure ; and finally whether the expense of 

 such new edifice should be defrayed by the county 

 fund, or by the funds of the turnpike. The econo- 

 mical party amongst the Devonshire parliament con- 

 tending, that a bridge which had answered every 

 purpose for the Plymouthians, during a long war, 

 in which more communication with the metropolis 

 was required than at present, ought still to satisfy 

 them, or, if altered at all, should be widened. Or, 

 if our population would have a new bridge, they 



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