An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 101
TIIS COLISEUM. BO HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Book 1, … the river, 1.^0 ft. liigli and GO feet wide, bearinjr arches of 170 ft. span. It was destroyedby Hadrian, Iiis successor : some say out of envy ; but the idea was, tliat it served the bar-b.irians as an inlet to the emjiirc, as much as it facilitated the passage of its troops to keepthem in…
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