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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. 'III. ? Construction of the Victoria Bridge at Montreal in Canada, elaborately Illustrated by Views, Plans, Elevation, and Details of the Bridge, together with Designs of the Machinery and Contrivances used in the Construction, with a Descriptive Text. Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and presented to His Royal Highness on the Opening of the Bridge, August 25th, 1860. By James Hodges, Engineer to the Contractors. Imp. folio, London: 1860. auspicious circumstances and events concurred to give the highest degree of splendour and of success to the visit paid, in the course of last autumn, by the Heir Apparent of the Crown, to the great continent of North America. The Prince of Wales himself, entering upon his public career, surrounded by the representatives of his magnificent inheritance, and by all the gifts of fortune, laid the foundation of that essential portion of his future greatness and welfare which depends on 'his own judgment, character, and patriotism. He was received with enthusiasm as the son of the Queen of England and the first Prince of the Blood Royal, but before he left the shores of America, that enthusiasm was heightened by the attachment and respect he had himself inspired. In Canada he found .1 colony rising by its own power, industry, energy, and population, to the dignity of a State; in the United States he learned that the representative of the British Monarchy is the head not only of a nation but of a race. The ties of kindred, of tradition, and of a common freedom between England and America, were incorporate in his person; and no man who witnessed those scenes of ardent excitement, could doubt that there are sympathies between the two countries more powerful than the ocean which divides them, and the revolutions which have dis...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458876980 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458876985 |
| Weight | 1.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.09 In |
| List Price | $33.77 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 490 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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