The original Picture of London . So uth tfoj k Sessioru House. QerkdruvcU. ^ BLACKFRIAES AND WATERLOO BRIDGES. 199 those at the end 210 feet each. These arches are composedof cast iron, but the piers and abutments are of stone, form-ing altogether the most stupendous bridge, of such com-pound materials, in the world. The central arch of South-wark Bridge exceeds in span the famous iron bridge at Sun-derland, by four feet, and of the Rialto of Venice, by 167feet. The weight of the iron alone is more than 5,508 foundations of the piers are twelve feet below thebottom of the riv
The original Picture of London . So uth tfoj k Sessioru House. QerkdruvcU. ^ BLACKFRIAES AND WATERLOO BRIDGES. 199 those at the end 210 feet each. These arches are composedof cast iron, but the piers and abutments are of stone, form-ing altogether the most stupendous bridge, of such com-pound materials, in the world. The central arch of South-wark Bridge exceeds in span the famous iron bridge at Sun-derland, by four feet, and of the Rialto of Venice, by 167feet. The weight of the iron alone is more than 5,508 foundations of the piers are twelve feet below thebottom of the river; and the bases of the immense timberpiles upon which those foundations (with the wooden plat-form 2^ feet thick intervening) rest, are 26| feet lower. Thedistance between the two abutments is 708 feet: the en-tire expense incurred by the construction of this bridgeamounted to 800,000/. It was completed and opened forpublic use in March, 1819. Blackfnars Bridge, — This bridge was built by Mylne, between the years 1760 and 1769, at an ex-
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