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strength would be appropriate. In this case, as in all others, a bridge will 

 have its importance and usefulness increased when viewed from any principal 

 point, by a connecting walk or road being more or less seen not far from it ; 

 at least so near as to seem to lead to it, and leave no doubt on the mind 

 as to its utility. 



The kind of bridge most suitable for a walk interrupted by a rivulet or 

 brook, in a wood or other rural or uncultivated scenery, is one simply 

 formed of rude wood work, as delineated in figure 22. When a walk can be 

 (•allied across a rivulet in front of a 



cascade or fall, about ten or twenty tigure 22. 



yards distant from it, a bridge will 

 add interest to the scenery, and afford ,Jp 

 convenience to the spectator in 

 viewing the fall. A bridge cross- 

 ing a rill in a flower garden, or 

 other polished parts of the pleasure 

 grounds, may be of iron ; but one 

 constructed of larch rods and poles 

 stripped of their bark, and stained 



— not painted — though less characteristic, would be generally pleasing. 

 (Figure 23.) This kind of bridge would also be proper for a lake, with a 

 number of arches according to ex- 

 tent, unless the drive should cross Figure 23. 

 an extensive lake ; then a more 

 substantial bridge of inasonry, with 

 stone battlements, would be more 

 appropriate. When stone is scarce, gK??^ 

 stone piers may be finished with <r 

 strong rustic wood battlements ; or < 

 battlements of a more finished cha- 

 racter may be substituted for stone. 

 A drive interrupted by a brook in 

 the park or elsewhere should have a bridge of masonry, as it harmonizes 

 with any kind of landscape, whether rural or picturesque, or of gentle 

 or abrupt undulations. In abrupt rocky scenery, a simple stone bridge 



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