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English: Watercolour in pen and ink of the long wooden Bridge crossing the Lake Taungthaman. The U Bein Bridge, situated to the south-east of the city, is the longest teak crossing in the world and measures 1.2 km. The road to and from the city, during the rainy season, or time of the inundations, lays exclusively over this bridge, making the journey into the town between three and four miles. On the innundations subsiding, an old dilapidated, and hitherto submerged bridge of bricks, at the northern end of the lake, began to make its appearance, and in a short time afforded a rough and very muddy passage over to the north-east corner of the City. It was over the former, the wooden bridge, that, on the morning of the deputation, the Irregular Cavalry escort, and the horses intended as presents for the King, passed; when two of the latter taking fright, or a freak, fell or leaped into the lake, and had to swim to the opposite side...