301 x 244 mm. View looking down onto a curve in the river, with the stream bridged in the foreground by a frail construction of woven twigs. Beside it can be seen the start of a more substantial wooden bridge. Bourne was photographing in the Chenab Valley in June 1864: 'But I pushed on next morning, after waiting for sunrise to take a view of Kishtawar, and one of the plain across which I had to go. I soon found myself again at the Chenab, but this time only to cross it by a rather nervous bridge. This bridge was made of twisted twigs, and swung from the rocks on each side like a suspension bridge, dipping very low in the centre. As this was an interesting object in itself, and with the river and surrounding rocks made a fair picture, I took two views of it, but was almost broiled in doing so. I then crossed it without fear or accident, and without the assistance of the man in charge, who is there to conduct timorous travellers across', (B.J.P., 7 December 1866, pp. 583-584). See also Y30221/67, a small format view of the same subject. Bourne no. 776.