Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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The second is a cluster of bridges between Fu-cheu
and Nanti, uniting various issands, that divide the river
into different streams: the principal of these consists of
one hundred arches, of a sufficient size for the passage of
fliips under full sail; it is built of large blocks of hewn
Rone, and enclosed with a magnificent marble balustrade,
the pedestals of which support two hundred Colossal lionsx
artfully cut in the same material.

The third is a bridge at Swemchew-fu, built over an
arm of the sea, that sometimes is very boisterous: it is
above three quarters of a mile long, thirty-five feet wide,
and consists of one hundred and thirty piers, of an
astonifliing height, upon which are laid vast blocks, of a
greyissi granite, that form the road.

But the largest and most surprizing work of the sort,
that yet has been heard of, is the bridge of Lo-yang, in
the province of Fokien : it is composed of three hundred
piers of black marble, joined to each other by vast blocks
of the same material, forming the road, which is enclosed
with

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