The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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... houses . For this purpose they must have removed the mud as soon as the inundations subsided , and paid constant attention to the con- dition of the banks ; which then , perhaps , ascended in gentle slopes from the river , or were cut ...
... houses . For this purpose they must have removed the mud as soon as the inundations subsided , and paid constant attention to the con- dition of the banks ; which then , perhaps , ascended in gentle slopes from the river , or were cut ...
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... house of Dante's Purgatorio . * They then flowed over the northern and southern edges of the plateau , and , uniting with others , formed two distinct rivers called the Tuscan and Roman Chianas . The torrent of the Tresa , rising not ...
... house of Dante's Purgatorio . * They then flowed over the northern and southern edges of the plateau , and , uniting with others , formed two distinct rivers called the Tuscan and Roman Chianas . The torrent of the Tresa , rising not ...
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... houses adjoined the falls . As they were gazing on the grand but fearful spectacle , on a sudden the river was seen to change its course , and diverging to the right , to open for itself a new channel , which the rush of the waters ...
... houses adjoined the falls . As they were gazing on the grand but fearful spectacle , on a sudden the river was seen to change its course , and diverging to the right , to open for itself a new channel , which the rush of the waters ...
Pàgina 42
... houses . Accordingly we find that as Rome became more populous , and the people more luxurious , the water of each ... house in Rome was provided with 42 WATER OF THE TIBER .
... houses . Accordingly we find that as Rome became more populous , and the people more luxurious , the water of each ... house in Rome was provided with 42 WATER OF THE TIBER .
Pàgina 43
Strother Ancrum Smith. Agrippa , almost every house in Rome was provided with pipes for conveying the water and tanks ... houses in some cases being built on arches over the river . Thus , at the Ripetta the stream is not more than one ...
Strother Ancrum Smith. Agrippa , almost every house in Rome was provided with pipes for conveying the water and tanks ... houses in some cases being built on arches over the river . Thus , at the Ripetta the stream is not more than one ...
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