The following statement is furnished by the engineer who is to superintend its construction: -- "Clear span, 1,600 feet; length of bridge between the towers, 1,665; total length of bridge, including approaches, 2,499; height of bridge above high water, 155 feet; working safe load for the rail road lines, 2,400 ton?; working safe load for highways, 2,880; total safe load for the bridge, 5,280 ; load that will break the bridge, 25,161. The bridge will carry at one time 32 passenger cars; the bridge would carry safely 38.569 people, and a train of 60 locomotives, if they could be all on it at once; 53 locomotives and 18,000 would

o The Romance of the Hudson. Harpers Mo. Man, No. cccxL, April, 1876, vols. L, II, 647, 8, 9. About 30 years since, several cannon were raised from the sunken British vessels in the river, directly opposite Fort independence, by the aid of diving-bells. A portion of the large chain which Btretched across the Hudson, is still preserved at the Manor-house ou the Crown.

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o Dunlap's Hist, ol New York, vol. i, p. 127.

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fill it. There are to be 20 cables in 4 systems; each cable will be about 14 inches diameter; the cables contain 371,195,750 feet of steel wire, or about 70,302 miles of steel wire; total weight of iron and steel in the bridge, 17,005 tons; total amount of masonry, 58,084 cubic yards; total suspended weight, 9,651 tons; height of towers above water, 280 feet. The bridge will leave the water-way of the river untouched."