Beauties of the StLawrence . R., MONTREAL. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companys si »#:%s% continentalroute by rail,and confirmsthe com-manding po-sition of thecity as anentrepot atthe head ofocean navig-ation for thecommerce ofthe East andWest. A little farther on we recognize at a glance the celebrated Victoria Bridge, oneof the greatest, if not the greatest engineering feat of the age, connect-ing the Grand Trunk Railway with the Island of Montreal and thesouth shore of the St. Lawrence. It is built of iron on the tubularprinciple. There are two long abutments and twenty-four piers of
Beauties of the StLawrence . R., MONTREAL. The Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Companys si »#:%s% continentalroute by rail,and confirmsthe com-manding po-sition of thecity as anentrepot atthe head ofocean navig-ation for thecommerce ofthe East andWest. A little farther on we recognize at a glance the celebrated Victoria Bridge, oneof the greatest, if not the greatest engineering feat of the age, connect-ing the Grand Trunk Railway with the Island of Montreal and thesouth shore of the St. Lawrence. It is built of iron on the tubularprinciple. There are two long abutments and twenty-four piers ofsolid masonry. The length of the bridge is two miles. The tubethrough which the railway track is laid is twenty-two feet high andsixteen wide. The total cost of the structure was $6,300,000. Itis the creation of the same genius that spanned the Menai Straits,Robert Stephenson and A. M. Ross having been the engineers whoplanned this great work. To look from one of the openings in the J SHOOTING THE LACHINE RAPIDS— NDIAN VILLAGE OF CAUGHNAWAGA, OPPOSITE LACHINE. Souvenir of Canadian Scenery. 9 centre piers on to the St. Lawrence rnshing past in one grand streamfar below, sweeping under the bridge in eddies and whirlpools, orbursting into spurts of angry foam as it strikes the sharp edges ofthe masonry,—to look along the sides of the iron tube, which tapersaway at each end in the distance till it seems a mere rod of metal,one cannot but be astounded, not only how such a design wascarried out, but how it could ever have been conceived as interest increases as the fair, royal city of Montreal comesgrandly into view.
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