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But the same objections which led to the rejection of Rennie’s and Telford’s designs, proved fatal to Robert Stephenson’s, and his iron-arched railway bridge was rejected by the Admiralty. The navigation of the Strait was under no circumstances to be interfered with; and even the erection of scaffolding from below, to support the bridge during construction, was not to be permitted.
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