 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...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...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...The middle part of the road wan raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, 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 - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broad and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | Hunting - 1827 - 558 pages
...raised into a terrace commanding the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, grave], and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries ! They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...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...highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...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...highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...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 - Roads - 1833 - 508 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
