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from distant jjoints of view, render the photographs unsatisfac- 
tory. But the highness and grace of the arch are brought out 
by the partial view which Long obtained In- climbing far up 
the canyon wall and at some risk crawling out on an overhang- 
ing shelf. The majestic proportions of this bridge, however, 
may be partly realized by a few comp.qrisnns. Thus its bight 
is more than twice and its span more than three times as great 
as those of the famous natural bridge of Virginia. Its but- 
tresses are one hundred and eighteen feet farther apart than 
those of the celebrated masonry arch in the District of Colum- 
bia known as Cabin John bridge, a few miles from Washing- 
ton city, which has the greatest span of any masonry bridge 
on this continent. This bridge would over-span the capitol at 
Washington, and clear the top of the dome by fifty-one feet, 
and if the loftiest tree in the Calaveras grcve of giant sequoias 
in California stood in the bottom of the canyon its topmost 
bough would lack thirty-one feet of reaching the und^r side 
of the arch." 
THE LITTLE BRIDGE. 
(From a half-tone plate engraved by J. W. Evans.) 
