The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough

Author:David McCullough
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Retail, Technology, American History, 19th Century, History
ISBN: 9780743217378
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001-01-01T15:00:00+00:00


The fog seemed to follow the conformation of the ground, rising to a certain height above it in all directions, and obscuring all below that line. The spires of Trinity in New York, and in Brooklyn, and the tops of the masts of a ship in one of the dry docks, with the roof of the bridge towers, were all that were visible of the world below. Here and there where the heat from the furnace chimneys rarefied the air, white cones would rise like boiling springs, and I could in one direction trace the cautious movement of a steamer by the same means. Rising through this misty veil was the confused crash and roar of busy life below.



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