BRIDGE-WRECKERS, 352, 355. It is worth noting that the King of the Belgians in the present Great War has used a cyclist corps of bridge-wreckers, whose work is described in the _Daily Mail_, December 14, 1914, page 4. “The cyclists led the way. The explosives followed in a car. The charge was fixed to the girders under the bridges, an electric wire affixed, you touched a button and the near span of the bridge was in a moment no more than a gap. Their greatest achievement ... was a railway bridge between Courtrai and Audenarde. It needed two charges.” The cyclists regarded their work as “fun,” because no bridge was at all difficult to destroy. BRIG OF AYR, 94. BRIG O’ DOON, 45, 94. BRISTOL BRIDGE, OLD, a copy of Old London Bridge, had a chapel, 231. BRITANNIA BRIDGE over the Menai Straits, its great defects, 77-8; its length and its cost, 357. BRITISH AND FRENCH BRIDGES contrasted, 256-8, 281, 294-5; the French genius in architecture often superior to the British, 294-5. BRITISH APATHY, see “Apathy, British.” BRIVES-CHARENSAC, on the Loire, its ruined Roman bridge, 179, 180; the arch has a double ring of voussoirs, 305 _footnote_. BRONZE PERIOD, MEN OF THE, 21; approximate date of this period, 21; pastoral life of the Bronze Age on Dartmoor, 100, 101; this life rendered bridges necessary, 101, 103. BROOKLYN BRIDGE, at New York, described and criticised, 354. “BROWN BESS,” the Old Musket, displaced for a better weapon in 1857, 334. BUCHAN, DR. WILLIAM, one of Lister’s little-known forerunners, 58 _footnote_. BUCKLER, J. C. AND C., their “Remarks on Wayside Chapels,” 228 _footnote_. BUDAPEST, the chains of its great suspension bridge pass _through_ the towers instead of _over_ the summits, 346. BUJUCO BRIDGES in South America, described by the Spanish Admiral Don Antonio de Ulloa, 146, 147. BULLEID, A., a writer on the Glastonbury Lake Village, 139 _footnote_. BUNSEN, on the bridges of ancient Rome, 193, 197. BURDON, ROWLAND, in 1796, designed Wearmouth Bridge, 349. BURNSALL BRIDGE in Wharfedale, its shelter-places for foot-passengers, 258 _footnote_. BUSH-ROPE, in Equatorial Central Africa, its use in bridge-building, 123. CABLE BRIDGES OF BAMBOO in China, 145; of ox-hide thongs in Peru, 146; and also in the Andes, 147. CÆSAR AND THE BRITISH TRIBES, 22; he speaks of the Gaulish bridges, 70, 71. CAHORS, THE PONT VALENTRÉ AT, a fortified bridge of the thirteenth century, 27, 92, 263-4, 282-5; See also the illustrations facing pages 16 and 264; There was another great old bridge at Cahors, but it perished in a storm of local party politics, 44. CAILLE, PONT DE LA, famous modern suspension bridge, 344. CALAHORRA, the big tower guarding an entrance to the bridge at Córdova, 188.