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PART IV. 



consider this a merit, as it certainly is a curiosity, and 

 attribute the shaking of the bridge to the " very nice 

 principles on which it is built." But that the bridge 

 should shake or rock could have formed no part of 

 Iiiigo Jones's design, and that it stands at all must be 

 attributable mainly to the fact of its foundation being 

 upon a rock, which cannot be undermined and washed 

 away. 







JN1GO JONES'S BRIDGE AT LLANKWHT. 

 [By E. M. Wimpcris ] 



