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POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

JANUARY, 1873.

IRON BRIDGES. AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION.

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a tombstone commemorating the chims was distinguished, and which was record of the departcd Worthy who lies below to ed upon his tombstone, remains clear. the eternal gratitude of posterity. 1-M ‘ “ He built the f;un0us bridge over the inscn-ption is dated in the early part of Charles River in this town," says the this century (about l8l0), but the name ‘ record. The Charles River is here a of him who was thus immortalized has small stream. nlmtlt twenty to thirty feet ‘I,’ ‘ d according 10 Ac! 0! Cougms, in the year 187:, by I It l.ll'P)N(t)Tl‘ & Co., in the Ofﬁw M' the En(er: Librarian uf (:nI1gre, at 'ashmgtnn

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