above the current; it is built of powerful chains, carried from bank to bank and held by masses of solid masonry set in the bed-rock.

It is 60 yards long and 10ft.

wide, is floored with wood, and has a picket parapet supported by lateral chains.

From the river a path led us up to a small village, where my men rested to gather strength.

For facing us were the mountain heights, which had to be escaladed before we could leave the river gulch.