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One may pass over the canals to the other side by means of bridges. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #33)

Indeed, I myself was now on one such walkway, called the Thieves' Way. Port Kar, I have been told, is the only Gorean city in which there is an officially recognized Caste of Thieves. To be sure, most of the thieving, I gather, is done outside the city, in other cities, Port Kar then affording a refuge to which successful members of that unusual caste may repair to enjoy the profits of their labors. One may pass over the canals to the other side by means of bridges. These are usually arched, small, and easily burned. I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an independent, defensible keep, each supplied with food, water, and weaponry. One conjectures, similarly, that the vulnerability of many of the bridges in Port Kar, like ornamented, lanterned, lovely, painted tinder, is unlikely to be mere coincidence. - (Quarry of Gor)