KÂREDJ BRIDGE, Persia, 265-6.
KASHMÍR BRIDGES, 71, 72, 73, 160, 161.
KERSHAW, S. WAYLAND, the late, on bridge chapels, 243 _et seq._
KETTLETHORPE PARK, 226.
KHAJU, THE PUL-I-, at Isfahan, 213, 214, 215, 216.
KIEN-NING-FU, in the province of Fo-Kien, China, its three handsome
bridges mentioned by Marco Polo, 128.
KILBURNE, RICHARD, and his “Survey of Kent,” 244.
KINGSLEY, CHARLES, his visit to the Pont du Gard, 170-2.
KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, German traveller and philosopher, _b._
1602--_d._ 1680, his book on China, translated into French by
Dalquié, 314, 345, and _footnote_.
KIRKBY LONSDALE BRIDGE, attributed to the Devil, 93.
KNOLLES, SIR R., in 1387, helped to build Rochester Bridge, 244.
KREUZNACH, on the Nahe, Prussia, its old bridge with quaint houses,
208, and the illustration facing p. 208.
KURDISTAN, primitive bridges, 73, 74, 75, 76, 272.
LABELYE’S WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, see “Westminster Bridge.”
LACER, CAIUS JULIUS, Roman architect, and builder of Trajan’s
Bridge over the Tagus at Alcántara, 121, 184, 190, 344. He was
buried on the left bank quite close to his bridge, 184, a
romantic circumstance, like the burial of Bénézet and Colechurch
in their bridge chapels.
LAELLENKOENIG, a grotesque head that used to decorate the tower on
Bâle Bridge, 306, 307.
LAKE DWELLINGS AND VILLAGES, the highest form of prehistoric
bridge-building, 21;
how evolved from Nature’s object-lessons, 111;
primitive shop-bridges probably descended from them, as in Kashmír,
72, 73;
the Glastonbury Lake Village, 136 _et seq._
LAMBÈSE, in Algeria, famous aqueduct, 176.
LANCASHIRE BRIDGES, primitive, 55, 60, 61;
Roman or of Roman origin, 162-3, 263;
mediæval, 250 _footnote_.
LANCASTER BRIDGE, built in the reign of King John, 250 _footnote_.
LANDLORDS, MEDIÆVAL, in their relation to the _trinoda necessitas_,
40 _et seq._
LANKESTER, SIR RAY, on the approximate date of Palæolithic art, 62;
on the eagle-beaked flint tools unearthed from Pliocene deposits
on the East Anglian Coast, 120 _et seq._;
on the approximate date of the Neolithic Period, 136.
LAROQUE, THE BRIDGES OF, near Cahors, 300;
see also the colour plate facing page 300.
“LATE CELTI” ART was practised in the Glastonbury Lake Village as in
the Hunsbury Camp, near Northampton, 137.
LAVA, from volcanoes, has made slab-bridges, 124.
LAVAUR, PONT DE, famous French bridge of the eighteenth century, 310.
LAW, MEDIÆVAL, and its attitude to roads and bridges, 40 _et seq._
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