nd which had solved the question so apparentlyincapable of solution in our own times, of the means of securing asupply of water to a great Metropolis. Though water was not com-monly drunk by the Romans as it is by ourselves, and though theTiber was purity itself compared with the Thames, the liquid… … iEsculapius. 130 COMIC niSTORY OF ROME. [CHAP. XIII. objection has been made to tbeir construction as a needless expense;and it has been said, that their lofty arches proved only the height towhich folly and extravagance could be carried. Pipes have beensuggested as capable of answering every…
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