Feet. Inches.
Breadth of Chapel on the Centre Pier 20 --
Length of ditto 60 --
Exterior height from the Water about 110 --
Breadth of Eleventh Arch 16 --
------------------ Pier 21 --
Length of Eleventh Pier 37 --
Breadth of Twelfth Arch 24 6
------------------ Pier 21 --
Length of Twelfth Pier 38 --
Breadth of Thirteenth Arch 25 8
-------------------- Pier 27 --
Length of Thirteenth Pier 50 --
Breadth of Drawbridge, or Fourteenth Arch 29 4
VERTUE _makes this space 30 feet broad._
Feet. Inches.
Breadth of Fourteenth Pier 17 --
Length of Fourteenth Pier 26 --
Breadth of Fifteenth Arch 22 10
-------------------- Pier 26 --
Length of Fifteenth Pier 47 7
Breadth of Sixteenth Arch 21 10
-------------------- Pier 15 --
Length of Sixteenth Pier 46 --
Breadth of Seventeenth Arch 29 4
---------------------- Pier 25 --
Length of Seventeenth Pier 46 --
Breadth of Eighteenth Arch 24 --
-------------------- Pier 17 --
Length of Eighteenth Pier 46 --
Breadth of Nineteenth Arch 27 --
-------------------- Pier 17 --
Length of Nineteenth Pier, North Side 49 --
Breadth of Twentieth Arch 15 --
The Piers and Arches were both measured from the squares of the latter,
the triangular ends being left un-noticed, excepting in the instance
of the Great Pier. The length of the whole Bridge was 926 feet; its
height, 60; and the breadth of the Street over it, 40 feet.
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