The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . us reduced from six and a half to alittle more than four feet( metres) in height, andto a width of less than afoot. These deposits are ofevery colour and quality, con-taining carbonate of lime ofspongy texture, mud, clay,and a conglomerate of curious instance ofthe neglect of the aqueductsafter the middle of the fourthcentury is to be seen in theVigna di S. Croce in Gerusa-lerame, as you enter by thefirst gate on the left of thatchurch. The water dripping . i* 1 ^^^ ^^- — Section of the chan- thrOUg
The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . us reduced from six and a half to alittle more than four feet( metres) in height, andto a width of less than afoot. These deposits are ofevery colour and quality, con-taining carbonate of lime ofspongy texture, mud, clay,and a conglomerate of curious instance ofthe neglect of the aqueductsafter the middle of the fourthcentury is to be seen in theVigna di S. Croce in Gerusa-lerame, as you enter by thefirst gate on the left of thatchurch. The water dripping . i* 1 ^^^ ^^- — Section of the chan- thrOUgh the joints of the ^el of the Aqua Marcia, at Monte Stones, of which the channel ^^^^^ «^^^^^s ^^p^^^ ^ ^^^ bottom and sides. is built, was so saturated with deposits of lime that the whole height of the arcadeswas covered with incrustations, and came to have theappearance of a great rock honeycombed with the inhabitants of Rome were not imme-diately affected by a water famine, in otlier respectsthe cutting off of the water supply by the barbarians. 82 DESTRUCTION OF ANCIENT ROME proved disastrous to the City as well as to the countryaround it. In the City it led to the abandonment otthe great imperial thermae, which King Theoderic hadjust tried to put into repair. The same fate wasshared by the artificial basins called stagna or euripi^and by the 1212 public fountains and 247 reservoirswhich had adorned and supplied the City in earlierdays. The higher quarters suffered the most, becausetheir water supply, borne many miles on stone or brickarcades, could be more easily stopped. The supply ofthe lower quarters, on the other hand, was neverdiverted for any great length of time, because thechannels of the Virgo, of the Appia, and of the AnioVetus, which fed the Campus Martins, ran mostlyunderground and could be repaired without is the reason why the more salubrious hills wereabandoned toward the end of the fifth century, not tobe inhabited aga
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