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to the rules of architecture, there are not two of the piers finished, in the upper part of the parapet, on
the same parallel line, which can be easily discovered by the eye. The bridge was long complained of
as incommodious for modern wheel carriages, by reason of its narrowness, but that has lately been
remedied by certain improvements on the carriage way. The line of road to the bridge, from the north
was also indirect and inconvenient, but of late years, the approach has been made in a direct line
to it over the hollow grounds, by means of a bridge, which is finished with a handsome cast
metal railing. On the south end the approach has also been improved, and made direct, since
the turnpike road was completed. "There was a battle fought at the Bridge of Dee in April 1639, between
the Covenanters & an army raised by the Viscount of Aboyne; in which the latter were defeated.
Copied from Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen this 17th day of December 1864. -- Robert Dickson, Sapper, R.E. [Royal Engineers]