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asunder. At the height of nearly three 

 hundred feet above the torrent, are these 

 wonderful bridges, one above the other ; the 

 higher of the two about forty feet broad, and 

 fifty feet long, formed of solid rock, seven 

 feet thick in the centre of the arch. Beneath 

 this, and as it were at the side, at the depth 

 of nearly sixty feet, appears another bridge, 

 still more extraordinary, for it seems torn 

 from the mountain vs^hich forms the upper ; 

 the lower has the semblance of having fallen 

 from the mass of rock, three immense pieces 

 having descended from the other side of the 

 cleft — the upper mass forming the key-stone 

 of the other two. It is excessively danger- 

 ous to venture on this, as it is only acces- 

 sible by a narrow path on the brink of an 

 abyss. There is a cleft through which the 

 precipice can be seen ; and great quantities 

 of birds of night are observed skimming 

 about, and hovering over the water which 

 flows at the bottom of a cavern, so dark and 



