by E. Cornelius. 31 J 



The chain used contained 50 links, equal to 33 feet and i. 

 The distance between the abutments at the north end of their 

 bases, is 80 feet ; at the south end, 66 feet. As they ascend, the 

 distance is greater. These data give the following diagram. 



Although considerable resemblance appears at the base, yet 

 as no such correspondence is visible 40 feet above it, and the 

 sides for the whole remaining distance to the arch, one hun- 

 dred and thirty feet, lose their craggy appearance entirely, and 

 present the smooth, irregular surface of the oldest rocks. I 

 am led to think that the natural bridge is coeval with a very 

 remote period of time. Nor is there any difficulty even in sup- 

 posing it to have proceeded from the hand of the Almighty, as 

 it is ; for great and marvellous are all his works ! 



The following anecdote will evince the effect which the sight 

 of the natural bridge produced on a servant, who, without hav- 

 ing received any definite or adequate ideas of what he was to 

 see, attended his master to this spot. 



On the summit of the hill, or from the top of the Bridge, 

 the view is not more awful than that which is seen from the 

 brink of a hundred other precipices. The grand prospect is 

 from below. To reach it you must descend the hill by a blind 

 path, which winds through a thicket of trees, and terminates 

 at the instant when the whole bridge with its broad sides and 



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