It is a grand structure to span such a little river.

It must have cost three times as much as "The Great Bridge" over the Connecticut at Hartford; and yet the stream it crosses is a mere rivulet compared with our New England river.

"The bridge with wooden piers" is a fabric of fancy to most English people.

They have read of such a thing in Longfellow's poems, but hardly realise that it exists still in civilised countries.

Here bridges are works of art as well as of utility, and rank next to the grand old cathedrals and parish churches for solidity and symmetry.