BRACKETS, below the parapet of the Pont Neuf at Paris, 321. Brackets are ornamental projections from the face of a wall, to support statues and other objects. Some are adorned only with mouldings, while many are carved into angels, or foliage, or heads, or animals. Parker says: “It is not always easy to distinguish a bracket from a corbel; in some cases, indeed, one name is as correct as the other.” See Brangwyn’s drawing of the Pont Neuf facing page 320. BRADFORD-ON-AVON, Wiltshire, the bridge there has a tiny oratory, 231-2, which was profaned after the Reformation, becoming a “lock-up,” and then a powder magazine, 232. The bridge has nine arches; the two pointed ones uniting the oratory to the bankside have ribbed vaults, and the others are round-headed arches with double rings of voussoirs, 305 _footnote_. Originally the bridge was a narrow one for packhorses, but it was widened in 1645, or thereabouts. A hospital used to stand at one end of the bridge, and doles of charity for it may have been collected in the little place of prayer. Leland admired this bridge, and noted its nine fair arches of stone, and a fair large parish church standing beneath the bridge on Avon ripe. BRAIN, THE HUMAN, its large size and its infrequent greatness, 110, 111, 112, 239-40; see also the second chapter. BRANCH RAILWAY LINES over strategic rivers, they are necessary in national defence now that bridges may be damaged seriously with bombs falling from airships and aeroplanes, 355-6. BRANDRYTH OR BRANDERETH, a mediæval name for a cofferdam, 253, and _footnote_. BRANGWYN, FRANK, vi, 6, 15, 23, 29, 34, 78, 79, 92, 160, 162, 179, 194, 201, 202, 208, 209, 212, 223, 224, 236, 247, 254, 258, 272, 279, 291, 299, 307, 331; see also the Lists of Illustrations. BRECON, its bridge has safety recesses built into the piers from the parapet, 258 _footnote_. BRICK AQUEDUCTS, Roman, 189-90. BRICK BRIDGES, Persian, 265-6, 270; European, the Pont des Consuls at Montauban, fourteenth century, 255; and the covered bridge over the Ticino at Pavia, 308. BRIDGE-BUILDING, Roman, 26-30; see also Chapter III; mediæval, 26-30, 33-6, 85-106, 264; see also “Ballad of Abingdon Bridge”; Chinese, see “Marco Polo”; Persian, see “Kâredj,” “Khaju,” and “Ali Verdi Khan”; Primitive, see “America, South,” “Beddoes,” “Bhutan,” “Criss-Cross Piers,” “Kashmír,” “Kurdistan,” and Chapter II.