. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1817.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 105 " The arches which rjecnrate some portion of this aqueduct are not only well proportioned, but receive further einbeMishraent frorn a regular of Corinthian coluruns: where the passage is preserved through the line, the elevation is increased by an additional height. The section at the side shows the channel for the streiira, which flowed in the attic, built above the order, covered in by a vault carefully worke
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1817.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 105 " The arches which rjecnrate some portion of this aqueduct are not only well proportioned, but receive further einbeMishraent frorn a regular of Corinthian coluruns: where the passage is preserved through the line, the elevation is increased by an additional height. The section at the side shows the channel for the streiira, which flowed in the attic, built above the order, covered in by a vault carefully worked and well tied togeiln-r : here every precaution seems to have been taken to guard against leakage, which, if it ever happened, would be immediately discovered, by the pouring out of the water at the defective place ; and along the whole line of aqueduct, mate- rials were deposited, that there might be no delay m the work ; there would be also less to perform than to take up a whole length of mains laid under a solid and hard pavement, rendered impassable during the progress. Such an inconvenience in crowded streets, the Romans wisely avoided, and con- tinued to prefer the system of raised aqueducts to those buried in vaults under ;. AQnA VIRGINE. Th« engravings of this viaduct, and also of tlie Gate of Augustus, at Fano, show a combination of the Trabeate and Arcuate architec- ture, so much adopted by the Romans; although it is highly ornate, tlie combination of the two do not appear to form one construction:â the Trabeate looks like an accessory to the Arcuate, and put up after the latter had been erected. This barbarism of attaching idle, un- meaning columns and entablatures to useful, effective arches, is com- pared by Hope, in his Architectural Essay, to the barbarous treatment of his subjects by the tyrant Mezentius, who tied living men to dead corpses. Many a modern architect would do well to think over this comparison. Drainage was also well understood
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