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Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 8 February 1851, Page 7

Bridge between England and France.— The Academy of Sciences has at present under consideration a plan of a most extraordinary character, ber»<r neither inure nor less than a suspension bridge between Hugland ami France.iVL Fevdiniuul Leinaitre proposes to establish an aerostatic bridge between Calais and Dover. For tins purpose lie would construct strong abutments, to which the platform would be attached. At a distance of 100 yards from the coast, and at distances of every 100 yards across the Channel, he would sink tour barges heavily laden, to which would he fixed a double iron chain of peculiar constvuetion. A formidable apparatus of balloons of an elliptical form, and iirinlv secured, would support in the air the extremity of these chains, which would he strongly fastened to the abutments on the shore by other chains. Each section of 100 yards would cost 300 thousand francs, which would make 84 millions for the whole distance across. These chain?, supported in the air at stated distances, would become the point of support of this fairy britlire, on which the inventor pro-' poses to establish an atmospheric railway. This project has been developed at great length by the inventor. — JPretwh J Jaj)er. . »■