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The Natural and Artificial Wonders of the United Kingdom, by J. Goldsmith
The Natural and Artificial Wonders of the United Kingdom by J Goldsmith Author:RICHARD PHILLIPS Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: various places, the cross-part of which is paved with about 200 tons of Purbeck stone, and beneath which galleries and flights of steps are constructed for the c... more »onvenience of embarkation. On each clump of piles there are two towers of cast iron, each weighing about 15 tons; they are 25 feet high, from the point of suspension, and 10 feet distant, united by an arcn, the interiors of which will be fitted up for refreshment rooms, 8fc. The bridge (which is 1134 feet long, and 13 feet wide, with a neat cast-iron railing on each side) is supported by eight chains, each containing 117 links, 10 feet in length, 6| inches in circumference, and weighing 112 pounds; which are made fast by being affixed to an iron plate weighing between two and three tons, at the end of barrel-drains, 54 feet in the cliff. From the cliff the chains (four on each side) pass over the towers, with a dip of eighteen feet, secured at the outer clump of piles, and from which are suspended 362 rods, connected by an iron bar on which the platform rests. The whole is handsomely painted, and is the finest specimen of architecture, of the kind, in the world. The length of the esplanade, from the Steyne, is 1250 feet, and 33 feet wide, including a handsome brick pavement, 10 feet wide.—The expense was about 30,000/. It was commenced in October 1822; completed in October,' and opened in November, 1823. Breakwater, Plymouth Sound. The Sound and the Harbour of Plymouth are, perhaps, the places where nature has done the VOL. II. V most for the navy, and in the situation the most important to the safety of Great Britain. Industry, power, and wealth, have united their efforts in order to derive from this situation all the advantages which it was possible to expect. Plymouth Sound, which is wide and deep, is surrou...« less