9. Moroni, "Dizionario d' Erudizione Ecclesiastica." 10. Letters of the Correspondent of the "Times" relating to he Embankment of Rivers. I have also derived some useful hints from a pamphlet Signore Lanciani on the port of Trajan, and from an other published a short time ago by Signore Aubert on the late inundation and the means of preventing similar calamities. Something, also, has been gleaned from Preller's "Rom und der Tiber." Most of the modern writers, however, and Preller among the rest, confine themselves to the Tiber in and below the city of Rome. They treat the river as if it had no antecedents, as if it descended from the clouds, or emerged from the earth immediately before it entered Rome. Their suggestions, therefore, are of little value, and the remedies which they propose are either entirely useless or mere palliatives, as I shall be prepared to shew more fully in the course of this work. On the Proposed Schemes for Preventing the Inundations of the Tiber 183 Climate of Rome in Ancient Times..... Conclusion.... 199 210 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Map of the Tiber and its tributaries.. Frontispiece. Isola St. Bartolomeo et Ponte Rotto, with view of Ponte quarto Capi, I The Ponte Molle, as it appeared after the Siege of Rome by the French in 1849..... Geometrical Figures Fish of the Tiber (coloured).. Plate 1., Fig. 1. Muræna of the Romans, Fig. 2. Common Lamprey. Fig. 3. Mugilis of the Romans-Grey Mullet. Fig. 5. Common Sturgeon. Plate II., Fig. 6. Lupus of the Romans. 49 109 149 151 |
