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BRIDGES.
PLATE X.
A BRIDGE ADAPTED TO PARK SCENERY.
WHERE water intersects a park in such a way as to render
a bridge across it necessary in the line of approach to the man-
sion, the annexed design would be appropriate, particularly if
the ground at each end of the bridge happened to be so elevated,
or gently rising from the plane of the park as to permit the
parapet to be level, instead of an extended curve, according
to the usual practice in such edifices; and this circumstance
would afford a greater length to the road-way of the bridge,
and consequently produce an effect of magnitude at little ad-
ditional expense.
Without the side arches, a building so formed would divide
the grounds on both banks of the river or canal; but in this
instance, a free communication is obtained, and the walks
along its margins preserved entire ; which are here supposed
to be embellished by plantations, as being in the immediate
vicinity of the pleasure grounds, and one bank might very pro-
perly form a part of them.
A bridge of this description should be placed so near the
mansion as to combine with its general design, and appear to
be an essential part of the whole; in which case it wvould greatly
add to its seeming magnitude and consequence, and lose its
liability to the objection raised to many bridges standing in
the middle of a park, on account of their unsupported and
solitary appearances.
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