The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvi
... Engineers , Andrea Chiesa and Bernardo Gambarini , " who were appointed by Clement XII . to enquire whether there were any means of rendering the Tiber navigable from Ponte Nuovo , six miles below Perugia , to the confluence of the Nera ...
... Engineers , Andrea Chiesa and Bernardo Gambarini , " who were appointed by Clement XII . to enquire whether there were any means of rendering the Tiber navigable from Ponte Nuovo , six miles below Perugia , to the confluence of the Nera ...
Pàgina 35
... engineers , Andrea Chiesa and Bernardo Gambarini , to survey the course of the Tiber , and report upon the feasibility of rendering it navigable from Ponte Nuovo , just below the mouth of the Chiascia to the Nera , a distance of fifty ...
... engineers , Andrea Chiesa and Bernardo Gambarini , to survey the course of the Tiber , and report upon the feasibility of rendering it navigable from Ponte Nuovo , just below the mouth of the Chiascia to the Nera , a distance of fifty ...
Pàgina 36
... engineers consider , an enormous expenditure , with the almost certainty of failure . The piling and embankments required to narrow the current of the river and increase its depth would be wholly or partially swept away during great ...
... engineers consider , an enormous expenditure , with the almost certainty of failure . The piling and embankments required to narrow the current of the river and increase its depth would be wholly or partially swept away during great ...
Pàgina 61
... engineers in the present day who think that , by employing the same means which so signally failed in ancient times , they can succeed on confining the river within its banks . * Tiberis .... effusione imbrium exuberans nimia , et supra ...
... engineers in the present day who think that , by employing the same means which so signally failed in ancient times , they can succeed on confining the river within its banks . * Tiberis .... effusione imbrium exuberans nimia , et supra ...
Pàgina 87
... engineers , Gambarini and Chiesa , hold that no appreciable change has taken place since the time of the Romans , and in support of this view they instance the platea , or foundation of the bridge of St. Angelo , which is uncovered when ...
... engineers , Gambarini and Chiesa , hold that no appreciable change has taken place since the time of the Romans , and in support of this view they instance the platea , or foundation of the bridge of St. Angelo , which is uncovered when ...
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