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oa a ‘The a used contained 50 links, ‘equal to 33 feet and 4. 
The distance between the abutments at the north end of their 
+ bases, is 80 feet; at the south end, 66. As they asce .d, the 
distance is greater. These data give the following diagram. — 
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Although considerable resemblance appears at the base, yet 
asno such correspondence is visible 40 feet above it, and the 
sides for the whole remaining distance to fhe arch, one bun- 
dred and thirty feet, lose their craggy appearance entirely, and 
present the smooth, irregular surface of the oldest rocks, I 
am led to think that the natural bridge is coeval with a very 
remote period of time. Nor is there any difficulty even in sup- 
posing it to have proceeded from the hand of the Almighty, as 
it is; for great and marvellous are all his works ! 
The following anecdote will evince the effect which the sight 
of the natural bridge produced on a servant, who, without hav- 
ing received any definite or adequate ideas of what he was to 
see, attended his master to this spot. 
On the summit of the hill, or from the top of the Bridge, 
the view is not more awful than that which is seen from the 
brink of a hundred other precipices. The grand prospect is 
from below. ‘To reach it you must descend the hill by a blind 
Path, which winds through a thicket of trees, and terminates 
at the instant when the whole bridge with its broad sides and 
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