The highest and most remarkable bridge in the world is on the now trolley tino andred yards dist towering hill, hitherto coos scaleable to any vehicle, is embelshed with saar of alla, over wich the can pass and royes in semptoocsly sppolnted ce. Tt iron path leads over a yawning chiao, 230 feet wide, and is carried to " beigtt of two thousand six hundred and sits-seven feot—nearly half a mile—sbvtt the dark, rasbinx, eddying river, whi as notched out for itself this fei fissure in the ribs of the monotaio, Th bridge is of flat ste] and steel calle and, in order that the passeozers m1! be able to survey the dizzy abyes wilt out risk or discomfort, the floor is plate less, less than two inches 9 thickness, and set in a strony fiume steel. The building of this stroctut has been described as one of the Bridge on the Gare to-Cairo Rail can no longer enjoy the proud distin tion of being the most elevated cang¥'! on the planet. Its height of 450 ft seems a mere cat's jamp in compsriss? with its wonderful American rival.
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