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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.52991#0068
In Tome places these roads are carried, by lofty vaulted
passages, through the rocks and mountains; in others^
upon causeways and bridges, over lakes, torrents, and
arms of the sea; and in others, they are supported, be-
tween the precipices, upon chains of iron, or upon
pillars, and many tire of arcades, over villages, pagodas,
and cities: in ssiort, no difficulty has been attended to
in their construdion ; but every obstacle has been con-
quered with amazing industry, and at an almost incredible
expence.
There are, in disserent parts of China, many works
of the kinds just mentioned ; but amongst the most con-
siderable, are counted the Passage of King-tong, the
Bridges of Fu-cheu, those of Swen-chew and Lo-yang,
with the Cientao, in the province of Xensi.
The first of these is a communication between two
precipices, composed of twenty enormous chains os iron,
each two hundred feet in length, which are covered with
planks and earth, to form the road.
The
passages, through the rocks and mountains; in others^
upon causeways and bridges, over lakes, torrents, and
arms of the sea; and in others, they are supported, be-
tween the precipices, upon chains of iron, or upon
pillars, and many tire of arcades, over villages, pagodas,
and cities: in ssiort, no difficulty has been attended to
in their construdion ; but every obstacle has been con-
quered with amazing industry, and at an almost incredible
expence.
There are, in disserent parts of China, many works
of the kinds just mentioned ; but amongst the most con-
siderable, are counted the Passage of King-tong, the
Bridges of Fu-cheu, those of Swen-chew and Lo-yang,
with the Cientao, in the province of Xensi.
The first of these is a communication between two
precipices, composed of twenty enormous chains os iron,
each two hundred feet in length, which are covered with
planks and earth, to form the road.
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