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as needs to be." Of course my colleague and 

 I stated all this to the Court at the next Ses- 

 sions, and without notice or cavil with the 

 county bridge Inspector or the contractors for 

 building the bridge. The words if necesswry 

 were inserted in the specifications relating to 

 the foundations of the intended new bridge. 

 I must, however, do the contractor the jus- 

 tice to add that he performed the work sa- 

 tisfactorily, and within the time specified in 

 the contract. And as all the parties con- 

 cerned in this matter of county expenditure 

 are long since defunct, the bridge remains a 

 specimen of good faith and good workman- 

 ship in a bridge-builder. Though, thanks to 

 the acuteness of my colleague, the amount of 

 £350 and upwards for construction of a 

 foundation was saved to the county. 



I have only one more case of county bridge 

 building to record : the bridge over the Goit 

 called " Hague bridge," where the townships 

 of Whitle, in Derbyshire, and Disley, in 



