Photo by li. II. Wilson, iVinolJ jViboietuni 



A CHARACTERISTIC CHINESE BRIDGE, WITH CYPRESS, BAMBOO, AND PISTACIA 



CHINENSIS 



Among China's most durable monuments are her bridges, the greatest display of which 

 is perhaps along the Grand Canal. A spectator has described their various forms as "hump- 

 back, horse-shoe, spectacle, camel-back, and needle-eye." Like the pagoda, it is one of the 

 frequent objects that, as a background in Chinese scenes, served the occidental artist and 

 engraver in conveying to the peoples of western countries the first impressions of China. 

 Chma has bridges and remains of bridges with an antiquity of 2,000 years and more (see 

 pages looo-iooi). 



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