Excerpt from The Unrivalled Angling and Hunting Via New Brunswick Railway and Connections: Also Picturesque Retreats, and Fine HotelsJ ust below is the Suspension Bridge. Which spans the rocky gorge at the mouth of the St. John River, and is a splendid specimen of engineering skill. It was built in 1852, at a cost of has a span of 640 feet, is 70 feet above high water, is hung on ten cables, supported by four towers of solid masonry 53 feet high, and contains 570 miles of wire. The greatest ln terest centers in the falls and their wonderful changes. The St. John is over 450 miles long, and drains over acres in its course to the sea. This immense body of water empties into the harbor through a gorge only 450 feet wide in one place.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.