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water is twenty-three feet. This Bridge c ost inbuilding fourteen thousand dollars.

ROWLEY BRIDGE

On the post-road between Boston and Newburyportis a Bridge across Parker’s River, eight hundredand seventy feet long, and twenty-six feet wide,consisting of nine solid piers and eight wooden arcs.

DEER ’S ISLAND BRIDGE.

Over the Merrimack River, in the county of Es­ sex , near Newburyport, is a Bridge that was plannedby Mr. Timothy Palmer, in the year one thou-sand seven hundred and ninety-two, constructedwith two arcs; the one is one hundred and sixty andthe other is one hundred and thirteen feet chord, andis erected forty feet above the level of high-water.

ESSEX BRIDGE

is fifteen hundred feet long, has a convenient draw,and is admired by travellers as a very elegant Bridge.

> HAVERHILL BRIDGE,is six hundred and fifty feet in length and thirty,four feet wide. It has three arcs, each one hun-