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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 203

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20O CATARACT OF THE ANIO. from Rome. The Anio is here pent up in a nar-row mountain-valley, and forced with a tremendousrush over a natural rocky barrier into a lower ravine,forming the celebratetl waterfall, about eighty feet high,which is so frequently mentioned by the writers of an-tiquity. … Cataract at Tivoli. From various physical indications, it is conjecturedthat the cataract was at one time much lower down thevalley than it is at present. The change was probablyeffected by the great catastrophe in a.d. 105, which theyounger Pliny describes, when the floods of the rapidriver swept…

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