 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consjsj.^d^of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital, with granite f. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in some places near the capital, with granite.5 Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...country, consisting of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, and in some places near the capital, with granite. Such...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant protranquillity:... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...terrace which commanded the ifjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, id was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital, with ranite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose rmness has not entirely yielded... | |
 | William Smith Ellis - Hurstpierpoint (Sussex, England) - 1837 - 90 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, cousisting of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in some places near the capital,.with granite. Such was the solid coustrue, tion of the Roman highways whose firmness has not... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in...construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in...granite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman nigh ways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or in...some places near the capital, with granite. Such was their solid construction, that their firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries.... | |
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Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. -The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was... 
