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feet span; and which ought to pafs for ene of the won- 
ders of our age. : 
'.The construction of this bridge cost 200,000 livres; 
French money. It fhakes with the lightest burden; and 
supports without danger the heaviest loaded carriages. 
‘Without theory, without the study of mathematics, the 
simple carpenter Grubenmann excited the admiration of 
connoifseurs by that masterpiece, which was the fruit of 
the extraordinary talents with which nature had endowed 
him, and which carried him on the wings of genius to the 
perfection of his art. i 
Bridge of Reichenaw. 
A league and a half:below Coire, near the castle of 
Reichenaw, at the bottom of which is the conjunction of 
the two great branches of the upper and the lower Rhine, 
I pafsed their united waters on a covered wooden bridge, 
formed by asingie arch, of 240 feet span 5 which had for its 
architect Jean Grubenmann, whose brother constructed the 
famous bridge of Shcaffhouse. 
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ARCTIC NEWS. 
Coutinued from p. 32. 
Two curious Siberian ring stones described. 
Evrors has been long acquainted with a curious stone pe- 
culiar to Siberia, composed of fine threads of red fhorl, in- 
closed by nature in white transparent rock crystal, which, 
when regularly disposed, as is sometimes the case, re- 
sembles perfectly those trefses of real hair so often put un- 
der an artificial crystal in honour of some favourite mistref 
or happy lover. * 
This /usus nature has been fancifully, though not adie? 
named Cheveux de Venus, from its colours resembling that 
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