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DEAN BK1DGE, AND GLASGOW BRIDGE. PART VIII. 



the ravine to be spanned involved great height in the 

 piers, the roadway being 106 feet above the level of the 

 river. The bridge was of four arches of 90 feet span 

 each, and its total length 447 feet ; the breadth between 

 the parapets for the purposes of the roadway and foot- 



DEAN BRIDGE, EDINBUEGH. 

 [By E, M. Wimperis, after a Sketch by J S. Smiles.] 



paths being 39 feet. 1 The bridge was completed and 

 opened in December, 1831. 



But the most important, as it was the last, of Mr. Tel- 

 ford's stone bridges was that erected across the Clyde at 

 the Broomielaw, Glasgow. Little more than fifty years 

 since, the banks of the river at that place were literally 

 covered with broom and hence its name whilst the 



1 The piers are built internally with 

 hollow compartments, as at the Menai 

 Bridge, the side walls being 3 feet 

 thick and the cross walls 2 feet. Pro- 

 jecting from the piers and abutments 

 are pilasters of solid masonry. The 

 main arches have their springing 

 70 feet from the foundations, and rise 

 30 feet ; and at 20 feet higher, other 



arches, of 96 feet span and 10 feet 

 rise, are constructed ; the face of these, 

 projecting before the main arches 

 and spandrels, producing a distinct 

 external soffit of 5 feet in breadth. 

 This, with the peculiar piers, con- 

 stitutes the principal distinctive fea- 

 ture in the bridge. 



