[Picture: Waterloo Bridge]
Is built of a very hard kind of stone called granite. This bridge was
commenced in 1811, and completed in 1817. The road-way of the bridge is
level, which is very favourable to the draught of carriages. It has nine
fine arches, 120 feet span. The piers are twenty feet thick, ornamented
with Tuscan columns. This building was constructed under the
superintendence of the late John Rennie, Esq. The opening of this bridge
to the public was conducted with unusual grandeur, on the 18th of June,
1817; being the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, his late Majesty,
then Prince Regent, and the Duke of Wellington, with grand military
cavalcade, attending.