Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]200 years? Not that big a deal. Check out Pont du Gard: http://tinyurl.com/3xqhnl --- Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Hoppy wrote: > > > > > Graham and Jerry, that is truly amazing. Jerry, > you are saying that > > the bridge is an aqueduct, part of the canal > system, actually > > passing over the natural water course? > > Yes, indeed. It is a bridge for canal boats (narrow > boats). > > A canal boat vacation is a leisurely drift from pub > to pub through > bucolic scenery. You either love it or hate it. A > recent BBC TV > special on vacation sites interviewed canal boaters > and found, to no > one?s surprise, that retirees loved it and teens > were bored out of > their skulls. The British countryside is relatively > flat and only a > few locks are needed to cross most of the small > hills. The Llangollen > Canal is one of the exceptions. The beautiful River > Dee runs in a > gorge near the town. To keep the Llangollen canal > relatively level, > the builders hired Thomas Telford, a 19th. century > engineering > genius, to build a 1007 foot long, 121 foot high > aqueduct to cross > the river. The canal boats simply float over the > river at the height > of a 10 story building. The Pontcysyllte aqueduct, > perched on 19 > stone arches, is another one of those engineering > marvels that > boggles the contemporary imagination. How could > country stone masons, > without the benefit of steam shovels, bulldozers, > and power tools > build a structure, literally a stone sculpture, that > has stood for > 200 years when more modern bridges have crumbled > into piles of rust? > Just like the Leica cameras of the 30's still > function relatively > trouble free while the M8 - - - - . You fill in the > rest. > > Larry Z > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php