400 
Water-way. 
156 feet. 
Expenditure - £. 2,000 
Water-way. 
195 feet. 
Expenditure - £.8,200 
Water-way, 
238 feet. 
Expenditure - £,4,224 
    
  
  
  
   
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
APPENDIX (L. 3) 
The Bonar bridge cost not much less than £.14,000, great expense having 
been incurred in the foundation of its piers and abutments. The iron-work 
was well painted in the year 1819, at an expense of £. 130. 
We have already had occasion to describe the FLeer Mouwxp, by which 
the Little Ferry is superseded. 
Wick BripgeE.—At the town of Wick in Caithness, and over a river of the 
same name (hear the junction of the Dunbeath and Thurso roads) is a con- 
siderable bridge of three arches; it was finished in the year 1809, and is 
connected by a short piece of road with the harbour, where a new town called 
Pulteney Town has sprung up on the south side of the river, not within the 
municipal jurisdiction of the Burgh of Wick. Here ends our northern line 
of bridges. 
CrAIGELLACHIE BRinGE.—The bridge over the river Spey at Fochabers 
was built by the Duke of Gordon about seventeen years since, partly at the 
expense of the public, and is maintained by tolls, not differing materially in the 
circumstances of its erection from Dunkeld bridge, excepting that it was not 
completed under our care. The utility of it was so strongly felt in the neigh- 
bourhood, that an application was made in the year 1810 for aid towards 
building a second bridge over the Spey at Boharm; but this being within 
six miles of Fochabers, we did not hold out much encouragement to the 
memorialists. Aware of the nature of our objection, they fixed on another site 
twelve miles above Fochabers, where the river Spey, rushing obliquely against 
the lofty rock.of Craigellachie, has cut for itself a deep channel, not exceeding 
fifty yards in breadth. Over this aniron arch has been constructed, and is the 
more beautiful, from not being in immediate contact with masonry arches, as 
was necessary at Bonar. = The scattered birch trees and native firs on the side 
of the impending mountain, the meadows along the valley of the Spey, and 
the western road of access to the bridge cut deeply into the face of the rock, 
combine, with the slender appearance of the iron arch, in rendering this spot 
one of the most remarkable in Scotland. 
Subsidiary to the main arch, and at some distance from it, are three others, 
built of stone, fifteen feet span each, under the eastern road of approach. These 
are useful in time of speats or river-floods, to which the Spey is remarkably 
liable. The entire price of this bridge, and its approaches, including the rock- 
blasting on the west side of the river, was no more than £.8,200; but we 
have to regret that the contractors, in their zeal for the speedy and effectual 
accomplishment of their engagement, lost about £.500 additional. This 
bridge was painted in 1818 at an expense of £.130; and for parapets and 
railing along the eastern causeway of approach was expended above £.100 
last year. 
BarLaTeEr Bripge.—Next after the rivers Tay and Spey, the river Dee 1s 
supposed to be the largest in Scotland, and was very insufficiently furnished