Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . near Palmaand Sarno, for the purpose of forming the modern of the aqueducts at Arci and Torricelli, he says abranch ran to the ancient town of Pompeii on a height oppo-site to the town of Torre della Xunziata, et in detto lochone appareno multi vestigii. He even says that the ancientaqueducts might be repaired.* It is evident, from its nu-merous foimtains, that Pompeii, in propo
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . near Palmaand Sarno, for the purpose of forming the modern of the aqueducts at Arci and Torricelli, he says abranch ran to the ancient town of Pompeii on a height oppo-site to the town of Torre della Xunziata, et in detto lochone appareno multi vestigii. He even says that the ancientaqueducts might be repaired.* It is evident, from its nu-merous foimtains, that Pompeii, in proportion to its size,must have been amply supplied with water, which was * Gel), Appendix to second series. POSITION OF POMPEII. 87 distributed to its different quarters by conduits, in masonry,lead, or baked earthen pipes. Leaden pipes, as we must con-clude from the number of them found, were almost univer-sally used to fit up the fountains, which have very little ofornament about them, and consist mostly of the head of aman or animal, from whose mouth a stream of water poursinto a basin below. The section of one will give a sufficientnotion of the construction of all. a a is the feeding pipe ;. Section of one of the numerous Public Fountains discovered in the Streets of Pompeii. b, the basin which received the water, made of blocks of tra-vertine cramped together with iron. The projections aboveand below the orifice of the pipe represent rudely the profileof a fauns head with long flowing moustaches and asss ears,through whose mouth the water issues. This fountain standsin front of the colonnade or propylasum which gives entranceto the triangular Forum, and the Greek temple. The ancients were acquainted with that hydrostaticax iawby which water flowing in a pipe ascends to the level of itssource; and it appears further, that they were acquainted 88 POMPEII. with that extension of the law, by which fluids may be madeto ascend in a vertical jet to a height proportionate to thepres
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