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stone steps, trapp-stenar. Of this stone, also, those 

 wonderful bridges, London Bridge and Westminster 

 Bridge, are built. Also, all milestones are made of it. 

 In short, this Portland Stone is here used for everything 

 for which the stones of Gottland,* dland, and the flaggy 

 firestone, talg-stenen, of Kinnekulle can be used. 

 The 26th April. 



[Paragraph " Prceservativ mot Eddsot " omitted.] 

 JDikes-broar af Tegel. Brick Bridges over Ditches. 



I saw nearly everywhere in the places which lie 

 around London, that where any water came to run under 

 the highway, landsvagen, or also any other road, they 

 had instead of any other bridge, made a bridge of brick, 

 en bro af tegel. They had dug there a very deep 

 ditch, walled and arched a bridge with bricks, and after- 

 wards filled up with earth the part over the arch, so that 

 the road was even and fiat all the way across it, so much 

 so that there was little sign of any bridge. [T. I. p. 374.J 

 They had also managed in the same way, when any little 

 "beck or runnel, back eller rannel, came to flow though 

 any earth-wall, mull vail, which had been cast up 

 round meadows, arable fields arid market gardens, or 

 when it passed under any house, &c, so that the water 

 there always ran under and through small arched channels 

 of brick. It were much to be wished that we, in Sweden, 

 should follow the same custom, for experience here shows 

 that brick bridges last a long time, and from this it is 

 clear that their arch, when it is properly made, is strong 

 enough, kunna nog halla, to drive upon.t There can 



* "Civility and courtesy, en passant, are indigenous to the limestone 

 strata of Gottland." Sylvanus, Rambles in Sweden and Gottland. London, 

 1847, 8vo. p. 156. [J. L.] 



■(■ This now reads as a gentle satire. There are few such " country 

 "b'rid'ges" without a notice that they are only strong enough for ordinary traffic, 

 •as distinguished from traction engines. [J. L.J 



