. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . bridge of which the archaeologists of the lastcentury said they had seen the remains at very lowwater, and several dead arms by other structures whichare still recognizable. The milestones, or rather pillars,to indicate the road during flood are to be seen in thefields which border the road, showing that it was 30Roman feet broad. It passed in front of the Hotelde Ville, where it has been explored, and the pave-ment found 8 feet below the modern level. The stonesare polygonal, about a foot thick, and
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . bridge of which the archaeologists of the lastcentury said they had seen the remains at very lowwater, and several dead arms by other structures whichare still recognizable. The milestones, or rather pillars,to indicate the road during flood are to be seen in thefields which border the road, showing that it was 30Roman feet broad. It passed in front of the Hotelde Ville, where it has been explored, and the pave-ment found 8 feet below the modern level. The stonesare polygonal, about a foot thick, and with deep rutsworn in them. The drain which ran down the middlebeneath the paving has been again made then passed over a bridge of seven arches, whichstill exists. The first Acts mentioning it call it PonsVetus ; afterwards it is called Pons Mercatorum, be- 328 NARBONNE cause shops had been built upon it after the bed of theriver had been narrowed. The width of the one freearch, shown in the illustration (beneath which theCanal de la Robine passes), appears to have been 14. CANAL DE LA ROBINE AND ROMAN BRIDGE, NARBONNE. or 15 feet. The others are now cellars to houses builtin the bed of the river. In 1879 excavations discoveredthe base of a temple of Jupiter, which had been in thecapitol. Of the many fine buildings of the Romancity, the only remains are the architectural fragments DIVISIONS OF THE CITY 329 in the Musee Lamourguier, found when the fifth-cen-tury walls were demolished in 1872. Among these isan inscription proving that in ancient Narbonne therewas a tavern with the sign of the Gallic cock. The Visigoths established themselves in Narbonne in413, and retained possession of the city till 719, whenit was taken by the Saracens after a siege of two fortifications were then strengthened still furtherto such purpose that Charles Martel failed to take it,and Pepins troops only entered in 759 through 817, under Charlemagne, Narbonne beca
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