SRÍNAGAR, capital of Kashmír, her bridges with criss-cross piers of
deodar logs or trunks, 71-2.
STAIRCASE BRIDGE in China, 248.
TAHMASP, SHAH, of Persia, who reigned from 1523 to 1575, built the
Pul-i-Marnun at Isfahan, 212.
TALAVERA BRIDGE, Spain, 285 _footnote_.
TARABITA, a Peruvian suspension bridge, 146.
TARRAGONA, ROMAN AQUEDUCT AT, 189.
TAVIGNANO, RIVER, in Corsica, and its old military bridge shaped like
a Z, 238.
TAXES to help the building and repair of bridges, in London, 50;
at Montauban, 255.
TELFORD, THOMAS, Scottish engineer, _b._ 1757--_d._ 1834;
his views on Grubenmann’s bridge at Schaffhausen, 141-2;
on Inigo Jones’s bridge at Llanrwst, 282 _footnote_;
his foolish bridge at Craigellachie, 349.
TENNYSON, on Nature’s strife, 37;
his talk with a jerry-builder, 78.
TENORIO, PEDRO, ARCHBISHOP, renewed the bridges of Toledo, fourteenth
century, 287, 288-9.
TERRACE-WALK on the Pul-i-Khaju at Isfahan, 215, and on the Ali Verdi
Khan, 270.
TERROR inspired by the slowness of human progress, 55-6.
TERTIARY TIMES, their handicraft, 120-1.
TESSANGES, JEAN DE, Abbot of Cluny, who commissioned the building of
the Pont St. Esprit, 297.
TEWKESBURY, KING JOHN’S BRIDGE AT, 258 _footnote_.
THAMES BRIDGES, 96, 256;
see also “London Bridge” and “Westminster Bridge.”
THEBES, THE TEMPLE OF AMMON-RĒ, an early arch, 155.
THEORY, defined, 11;
misuse of this great word, 12.
THEORY, THE, OF PONTINE DEFENCE, 14-17, and of the universality of
strife, 17-52.
THIRLMERE, a primitive structure at, which is partly a dam, partly a
bridge, 131.
THORNTON, ROGER, of Newcastle, in 1429, bequeathed a hundred marks to
the Tyne Bridge, 10.
THOUARS, in Deux-Sèvres, Gothic bridge at, 275.
THRIFT IN BRIDGE-BUILDING, 264-5, 325-6.
TIBER, THE, and the sacrifice of human beings, 64.
TIBERIUS, he finished the beautiful Roman bridge at Rimini, which
Augustus had begun, 201.
TICINO, THE RIVER, and the covered bridge at Pavia, 308.
TILES, they have been used in some Chinese bridges, 211 _footnote_;
Persian bricks resemble Roman tiles, 267;
the spandrils of the Pul-i-Khaju at Isfahan are mostly filled in
with modern tiles, 215.
TIMBER BRIDGES, the earliest, 3, 58, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122,
123;
tree-bridges with stone piers, 129-32;
tree-bridges with timber piles, 133-5;
some typical timber bridges, 136-43;
in the United States of America, 142-3, 353;
see also “Criss-cross Piers.”
TIRYNS, early vaults at, 157.
TODENTANZBRUCKE AT LUCERNE, 292.
TOLEDO AND HER BRIDGES, 285-9.
TORDESILLAS BRIDGE, Spain, 285 _footnote_.
TORTOISE, SYMBOLIC, used in the decoration of some Chinese bridges,
311.
TOURNAI, PONT DES TROUS AT, 290.
TOURS, PONT DE, on the Loire, her cost and her length, 357;
see the picture facing p. 344.
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