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 87
hmus, says Pococke, the key tothe Peloponnesus, is nearly five miles in length. Here * Pococke, Early History of Greece Encyc. Metrop., 1851J 84 POSITION OF CORINTH. was the Diolcos, or ship-traverse, by which vessels weredrawn by machinery from sea to sea, near the town ofSchoenus. With heavy… … ^%f View of Corinth.—(Martin and Corbould.) tinues our authority, that the engineering skill of the agewas quite equal to any effort of this kind, as was shown bythe brilliant enterprise of the Samians—the constructionof a tunnel through a mountain, 4247 feet in length, inwhose centre was an…
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