Chapter II

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HAND-MADE WEAPONS preceded hand-made bridges, probably, 110.

HAROLD’S BRIDGE at Waltham Abbey, 162.

HAUNCHES OF A BRIDGE, 265 _footnote_.

HENRI IV, PONT, at Châtellerault, 331-2; see also the illustration facing page 332.

HENRY III, of England, and his wife, rob Old London Bridge of her revenues, 49-51.

HENRY V, of England, in the fourth year of his reign Abingdon Bridge was built, 251.

HENRY VIII, during and after his reign bridge chapels were desecrated, 225-6, 230-3.

HERALDS OF MAN, 113 _et seq._

HERODOTUS, on the canal begun by Necho II, 17 _footnote_; mentions the bridge at Babylon over the Euphrates, 274.

HEXHAM, SMEATON’S BRIDGE AT, 339.

HIGH BRIDGE, Lincoln, 221-2.

HIGHERFORD BRIDGE, near Colne, attributed to the Romans, 305 _footnote_.

HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE at Newcastle, a “scientific” adventure with an amusing history, 79-80.

HIGHWAY BOARDS, their inefficiency in England, 43, 230.

HINDRANCES TO BRIDGE-BUILDING, 250-1, 254-5, 264.

HOEN-HO, THE RIVER, and the bridge at Pulisangan, 310-13.

HOOGESLUIS, THE, at Amsterdam, a strumpet of a bridge, 323.

HORACE mentions the Pons Fabricius as attractive to suicides, 195-6.

HOSKING, writer on bridges, 143 _footnote_, 309, 317, 325-6.

HOUSED BRIDGES, 208, 213-15, 216-24, 225.

HOUTUM-SCHINDLER, SIR A., on the Pul-i-Kaisar at Shushter in Persia, 202-4.

HOWELL’S “LONDINOPOLIS,” 216-17.

HUMAN BEINGS offered as sacrifices to rivers, 64, 65 _et seq._

HUMAN GUNPOWDER, 23, 352.

HUMAN INITIATIVE, nothing else in Nature is less uncommon, 123.

HUMBOLDT used the pendulous bridges in Peru, 148.

IBERIANS, their stonecraft, 100, 102, 104; their cult of ancestors, 104; the world-wide influence of their genius, 125 _et seq._

ICONONZO, ROCK-BRIDGES OF, 151.

IGUANODON, asleep on a Nature-made bridge, 3.

ILLINOIS AND ST. LOUIS BRIDGE, 352-3.

IMITATION among men in societies, 55; stimulated by Nature-made bridges, 55; its dead routine, 110; see