History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT ANCONA. THE PROVINCES. L39 to the Danube, what was there apart from the Flaminian andAppian Ways ? Every day desolation was extending. For onecity prospering, how many were there on the decline ? Capua,Otriculuin, Tuder, Rimini, Bologna, Verona, and Pola, did indeed. GREEK STATUE IN THE MUSEUM OP PRINCE build amphitheatres, the ruins of which astonish and charm us;2Ferentinum, a theatre; Beneventum, Ancona, Rimini, and Susa,triumphal arches which are still The s
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . TRIUMPHAL ARCH AT ANCONA. THE PROVINCES. L39 to the Danube, what was there apart from the Flaminian andAppian Ways ? Every day desolation was extending. For onecity prospering, how many were there on the decline ? Capua,Otriculuin, Tuder, Rimini, Bologna, Verona, and Pola, did indeed. GREEK STATUE IN THE MUSEUM OP PRINCE build amphitheatres, the ruins of which astonish and charm us;2Ferentinum, a theatre; Beneventum, Ancona, Rimini, and Susa,triumphal arches which are still The sulphur springs ous deposits of stagnant water which remain just below the level of the ground inRome andits Campagna, from which under a burning sun disease-germs (bacilli malariae) are set free, sonumerous that the laborer collects them in the drops of sweat which cover his face. .Manescapes their influence on any ground a few yards higher than these subterranean pools,whence the water never drains off because their basins are formed of an almost impermeable tufa. For this reason the Romans reclai d (he soil hv mi-an^nf subterranean channels, one of which, found in modern times and put in a state of repair, has cleared the neighboringlands of their stagnant waters. See Tommasi-Crudelli, Surla distribution des eaux dans It sous-sol ile la Campagne de Rome (Mem. de IAca
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