Photograph from Lieut. W. K. Harris 



THE WONDERFUL HAWKESBURY BRIDGE : NEW SOUTH WALES 



The Hawkesbury Bridge is one of the largest and finest examples of engineering skill 

 in the southern hemisphere and embodies all the latest improvements in bridge designs. The 

 most difficult part of the work in connection with the construction of the bridge was the 

 great depth to which it was necessary to sink the piers to secure a good foundation. The 

 body of each pier is 48 by 20 feet, with rounded ends, enlarged at the base to 52 by 24 feet, 

 and some of the piers are sunk to a depth of no less than 162 feet below high-water mark, 

 which is said to be the deepest bridge foundation in the world. The abutments are built of 

 local freestone and are very fine examples of stonework. The piers from 3 feet below water 

 are built of masonry. The superstructure of the bridge is built for a double line, and the 

 main girders or trusses are 410 feet long between centers of end pins and 58 feet effective 

 depth at center. The bridge is built of steel throughout, and its total length between abut- 

 ments is 2,896 feet. 



pledging her credit to aid them. In the 

 Intercolonial, in the Canadian Pacific, in 

 the Grand Trunk Pacific, and in the Ca- 

 nadian Northern, obligations have been 

 assumed that might well frighten a coun- 

 try with 8,000,000 of people. But now, 

 in spite of these great burdens, which 

 conservative financiers have looked upon 

 with great concern, she proposes to take 

 over a new huge debt before the conclu- 

 sion of this war. 



Only a young people with great na- 

 tional spirit, with a great territorial em- 

 pire and magnificent resources, prompted 

 by the deepest loyalty to the principles 



of civil liberty and popular government 

 like that of Great Britain, could boldly 

 and calmly face a future so full of diffi- 

 cult problems and unparalleled financial 

 obstacles. 



Speaking of the history of Canada 

 down to 1912, since the British Xorth 

 America Act, in 1867, Professor "Wrong, 

 professor of history in the University of 

 Toronto, said : 



"The history of Canada during this 

 momentous period is not a tale of courts 

 and camps, of the workings of diplomacy 

 to avert or to lead to war, of the strug- 

 gles between those who cherish what is 



259 



