APPROPRIATE BRIDGES 



walls. Stately clumps of bamboo, planted near the 

 bridge on the upper slope, form a characteristic 

 decoration peculiarly pleasing, while the stone- 

 walled banks of the stream have as their only decora- 

 tion native water plants with floating branches not 

 easily injured by rapidly flowing water. To increase 

 the rugged beauty of this narrow waterway shallow 

 dams have been formed at regular intervals all along 

 the sloping section, so that even when the stream is 

 quiet there are always the flow and gurgle of water, 

 increased to wild dancing cascades in times of storm. 

 Where the Harrison estate slopes down to the 

 Old Church Eoad, near Glenside, a shallow stream 

 leading from the garden has been attractively 

 bridged across the public roadway. Here, where the 

 county allowed only the plainest of serviceable 

 bridges, private means have been expended for the 

 public good, and a handsome stone bridge arched 

 above the stream extends its stone-work in an at- 

 tractive curve to a mammoth stone gate-post ; while, 

 just beyond, the same stream has been dammed to 

 form a garden pond, and the roadway bridge passing 

 over the shallow portion has an ornamental railing. 

 Clumps of hardy flowering shrubbery dot the 

 grounds leading down to the stream, while trailers 

 and bog plants flourish along its edge and cling to 

 the stone-work of the bridge. 



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