CHAP. VIII. 



CRAIG-ELLACHIE BRIDGE. 



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well, and to this day remains a very serviceable structure. 

 Its appearance is highly picturesque. The scattered pines 

 and beech trees on the side of the impending moun- 

 tain, the meadows along the valley of the Spey, and the 

 western approach road to the bridge cut deeply into the 

 face of the rock, combine, with the slender appearance 

 of the iron arch, in rendering this spot one of the most 

 remarkable in Scotland. 1 



CRAIG-ELLACHIE BEIDGE. [ By Percival Skelton ] 



An iron bridge of a similar span to that at Craig- 

 Ellachie had previously been constructed across the 

 head of the Dornoch Frith at Bonar, near the point 

 where the waters of the Shin join the sea. The very 

 severe trial which this structure sustained from the 

 tremendous blow of an irregular mass of fir-tree logs, 



1 'Report of the Commissioners on Highland Roads and Bridges.' Ap- 

 pendix to ' Life of Telford,' p. 400. 



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