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Page 62. — 1. Finlay (Jacob), an engineer by whom the first real suspension bridge, having a roadway hung from cables, was constructed in 1801, over Jacob's creek, near Greensburg, Pa.

2. Annonay, in the department of Ardèche in the southern part of France.

3. Montgolfier, two brothers who lived at Annonay in the latter half of the eighteenth century; noted for their invention of the hot-air balloon.

4. Tain et Tournon, small towns on opposite banks of the Rhône, about sixty miles south of Lyons in southeastern France. The entire length of the Rhône, from its source in Switzerland to the Mediterranean, is about 500 miles, and below Lyons it is a very beautiful and powerful river.