Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE NATURAL BIUDGE. point above on the stream, from whence the view is equally linewith that first obtained from the descending 2^atli on the oppositeside. This picture exhibits the turn of the arch to greater ad-vantage. Then the flanking row of embattled cliffs, their sideswreathed with dark foliage, and their bases washed by the stream,forms a noble addition to the scene. ^ THE NATURAL BRIDGE. ISl. VIEW or , UPPER SIDE. The average height of these cliffs is about tw
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE NATURAL BIUDGE. point above on the stream, from whence the view is equally linewith that first obtained from the descending 2^atli on the oppositeside. This picture exhibits the turn of the arch to greater ad-vantage. Then the flanking row of embattled cliffs, their sideswreathed with dark foliage, and their bases washed by the stream,forms a noble addition to the scene. ^ THE NATURAL BRIDGE. ISl. VIEW or , UPPER SIDE. The average height of these cliffs is about two hundred aud fiftyteet^ the height of the bridge about two hundred and span of the arch is ninety-three feet, its average width eighty,and its thickness in the centre fifty-five feet. It does not cross thechasm precisely at right angles, but in an oblique direction, likewhat engineers call a skew bridge. While the cliffs are perpendic-ular, and in some places overhanging, the abutments under thearch approach until their bases are not more than fifty feet ordinary times the stream does not occupy more than halfthis space, although from its traces and water-marks it frequenthsweeps through in an unbroken volume, extending from rock torock. The top of the bridge is covered with a clay soil to thcdepth of several feet, which nourishes a considerable growth oftrees, generally of the evergreen species. These, with masses ofrock, serve to form natural parapets along the sides, as if forgreater sec
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