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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 228

An illustration from 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, leaf 228 — a-dozen to a-hundred. Their approach wasalways announced by the untiring repetitions of the prayers,which, in the distance, especially when male and femalevoices alternated, was poetical and plaintive. Most of thepilgrims were Germans. A large portion were from theBlack Forest, though there were… … We proceed now to point attention to some of theother principal roads over the Alps. The Romans, who, before the reign of AugustusCaesar, were but little acquainted with the Alps, or withany part of the region which these mountains enclose,reckoned, in the time of the republic, four principal roads…

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