LIST OF COLOUR PLATES

[Frontispiece.] Pont St. Bénézet over the Rhône at Avignon.Built between the years 1177 and 1185. National Gallery ofAustralia.
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Railway Bridge at Albi in France [8]
Pont Valentré at Cahors in France: the Fortified Gatesand Towers. Thirteenth Century. See also the [second picture]of this Bastille Bridge [16]
The Alcántara at Toledo. Mainly the work of ArchbishopTenorio, A.D. 1380; fortified by Andres Manrique, A.D. 1484.Collection of Miss E. C. Rossignol [32]
War-Bridge of the Middle Ages at Parthenay in France [36]
Cannon Street Railway Bridge, London. Collection of theFine Art Society [48]
Old London Bridge. Begun by Peter Colechurch in 1176, andfinished by a Frenchman, called Isembert, in the year 1209 [52]
Old Bridge over the Clain near Poitiers [56]
At Albi on the Tarn in France. Showing on our right theOld Houses, and beyond the Bridge, on our left, the great OldChurch, famous for its fortifications [72]
Tower Bridge, London. Collection of John Lane, Esq. [80]
Famous Bridge at Espalion in France. Said to date from theEighth Century [88]
Pont du Tarn at Albi in France. Said to date from about theyears 1035-40 [92]
Pont de Vernay at Airvault, Deux-Sèvres. Famous bridgewith ribbed arches, French Romanesque Period, Twelfth Century [96]
Old Bridge over the Aude at Carcassonne in France.Twelfth Century [104]
Gothic Bridge at Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France [120]
Ponte della Paglia at Venice. Renaissance. Collection ofR. Workman, Esq. [152]
Roman Aqueduct at Segovia in Spain [184]
Huge Defensive Bridge at Córdova in Spain. OriginallyRoman, but remodelled by the Moors in the Ninth Century.Recently so much repaired that it looks almost new [188]
Old Bridge with Houses at Kreuznach on the Nahe,Prussia [208]
The Rialto in Venice. Designed in 1588 by Antonio da Ponte.Collection of the Fine Art Society [212]
New London Bridge. Designed by George Rennie, and carriedout by his brother, Sir John Rennie. Opened to the public in1831. Collection of Charles Holme, Esq. [220]
Three-Arched Bridge at Venice, over the Canal ofSt. Giobbe. Brick and stone. Renaissance. Collection ofJ. Heaton, Esq. [224]
Gothic Bridge at Barnard Castle, Yorkshire [232]
Gothic Bridge with Shrines at Elche in Spain [236]
Old Bridge at Espaly, near Le Puy, in France [240]
Pont des Consuls over the Tarn at Montauban in France.Fourteenth Century [256]
Pont Valentré at Cahors-sur-Lot. Thirteenth Century. Seealso the [other picture] of this Bastille Bridge [264]
The Alcántara at Toledo. Showing the Moorish Gateway atthe Town end of the Bridge. See also the other picture [284]
Spanish War-Bridge—the Bridge of St. Martin at Toledo.Its history seems to date from 1212, but in the fourteenth centuryit was rebuilt by Archbishop Tenorio [288]
Ponte Nomentano over the Anio; a Mediæval War-Bridgein the Campagna [296]
Laroque on the River Lot, near Cahors. A sort of inlandGibraltar; a part of the village is built on bridges thrown acrosschasms in the rocks [300]
Pont Neuf at Paris. Built in 1604, but much altered since theRenaissance [320]
The Tower Bridge, London. Albertina Collection, Vienna. Seealso the other drawing [328]
Pont Henri IV over the Vienne at Châtellerault in France.Built by Charles Androuet du Cerceau, 1564-1609 [332]
Pont de Tours, France. Famous Bridge of the EighteenthCentury [344]
On the Tarn at Millau in Southern France. Representingthe broken end of an old bridge with a mill built on it; behind isan arch of the new bridge [352]