The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 113
sixtyfeet in breadth; and a hundred and seventy feet distantfrom each other; which was, therefore, the span or widthof the arches, thus making the whole length of the bridge F 2 100 ROMAN BRIDGES. about fifteen hundred yards. Doubts have been cast uponthis account of the bridge by reference to… … Bridge over the Ilissus. The annexed figure represents a Roman bridge overthe river Ilissus, in Greece. Passing over the fall of the Roman empire and theao-e of barbarism which succeeded, we find the Moors inSpain to be the first successful bridge-builders in what iscalled Modern Europe. The bridge…
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