. A history of Rome . chline the high cliffs inclosing the site of the city were the tombs of Roman merchantprinces and military officers. The exquisite rock-cutting shown in the illustrationfacing p. 130 (it probably dates from the first century A. D.) is one of the best-preservedrock-hewn facades to be seen to-day in any of the lands included within the boundariesof the old Roman Empire. 128 FROM TIBERIUS TO DIOCLETIAN [§138 More than fifteen years of his reign were spent by Hadrian inmaking tours of inspection through all the different provinces of theEmpire. He visited Britain, and secured
. A history of Rome . chline the high cliffs inclosing the site of the city were the tombs of Roman merchantprinces and military officers. The exquisite rock-cutting shown in the illustrationfacing p. 130 (it probably dates from the first century A. D.) is one of the best-preservedrock-hewn facades to be seen to-day in any of the lands included within the boundariesof the old Roman Empire. 128 FROM TIBERIUS TO DIOCLETIAN [§138 More than fifteen years of his reign were spent by Hadrian inmaking tours of inspection through all the different provinces of theEmpire. He visited Britain, and secured the Roman possessions thereagainst the Picts and Scots by erecting a continuous wall, aboutseventy miles in length, across the island from the Tyne to theSolway Firth. This rampart was constructed some distance to thesouth of the line of fortified stations that had been established byAgricola (sect. 135). The Hadrian Wall, in places well preserved,and broken at intervals by the ruins of old watchtowers and stations,. Fig. 33. The Hadrian Wall. (From a photograph) can still be traced over the low hills of the English moorlands almostfrom sea to There exists nowhere in the lands that once formedthe provinces of the empire of Rome any more impressive memorialof her world-wide dominion than these ramparts, along which forthree hundred years and more her sentinels kept watch and wardfor civilization against the barbarian marauders of Caledonia. On the Continent, in the upper regions of the Rhine and theDanube, Hadrian likewise secured the frontier by constructing a pali-sade and a chain of forts extending from one river to the other. 1 The best work on the rampart is J. C. Bruces The Roman Wall (London, 1851).Handbook to the Roman Wall, by the same author, is an abridgment of his larger of the best-preserved sections of the wall can be easily reached from the Haltwhistlestation on the railroad between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle. The student travelerin those pa
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