 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 Seiten
...middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consjsj.^d^of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was...stones, or in some places near the capital, with granite f. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 Seiten
...broadest and most rapid streams.'The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata...stones, or, in some places near the capital, with granite.5 Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 Seiten
...broadest and most rapid streams86. The middle part of the road wan raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata...and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in 83 See a Dissertation of M. de Boze, Mem. Js 1'Academie, tom. Iviii. Aristides pronounced an oration... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 Seiten
...middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisting of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, and in some places near the capital, with granite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 Seiten
...broarest and most rapid streams. " The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with at Smyrna, while the Franks have maintained commerce, the Turks have ruined the arts. 8 See a very... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 Seiten
...broadest and most rapid streams. -The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | 1829 - 622 Seiten
...broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | 1829 - 742 Seiten
...terrace which commanded the ifjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, id was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital, with ranite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose rmness has not entirely yielded... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1833 - 508 Seiten
...streams. The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, and consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, which in some places near the capital were of granite." The following are Mr. Pinkerton's observations... | |
 | 1834 - 332 Seiten
...of the Roman Empire, says ' The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata,...gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones.' Vol. 1. p. 82. Sir Robert Cotton de Bruce, the Antiquary, while making a pool near Connington Downs,... | |
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Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. -The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was... 
