 | William Dodge Herrick - Gardner (Mass.) - 1878 - 612 pages
...Roman miles, or three thousand, seven hundred and forty English miles. "The public roads were actually divided by mile-stones, and ran in a direct line,...bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country,... | |
 | 1878 - 732 pages
...the empire. These public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran, as nearly as possible, in a direct line from one city to another, with very...bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was, in favoured spots, raised into a terrace, which commanded... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...empire. '1 hese public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran, as nearly as possible, in a direct line from one city to another, with very...bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was, in favoured spots, raised into a terrace, which commanded... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...empire. '1 hese public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran, as nearly as possible, in a direct line from one city to another, with very...bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was, in favoured spots, raised into a terrace, which commanded... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1879 - 348 pages
...the south-cast point of the empire was drawn out to the length of 4080 Roman (or 3740 English) miles. The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct THB TRIUMPHS OF ENTERPRISE. line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory system - 1886 - 472 pages
...the empire by magnificent land highways, the marvel of modern engineers. These roads, says Gibbon, "were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another," and some notion of the extent of ground they traversed may be formed from the fact that, "the great... | |
 | Excavations (Archaeology) - 1889 - 678 pages
...the north-west to the south-east point of the empire was drawn out to the length of 4080 Eoman miles. The public roads were accurately divided by milestones,...in a direct line from one city to another with very littje respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property." It is the design of the present... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - Roads - 1891 - 624 pages
...study of the road builders of the nineteenth century. The historian Gibbon says of these roads : They were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in...another with very little respect for the obstacles of nature or private property. The middle part was raised into a terrace, and consisted of several... | |
 | Rome, Italy (City). British and American Archaeological Society - 1899 - 568 pages
...Empire, was drawn out to the length of 4080 Roman miles or 3740 English miles (Page 70, vol. I, note 85). The public roads were accurately divided by milestones...property. Mountains were perforated and bold arches were thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The middle part of the road was raised into a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 668 pages
...thousand and eighty Roman miles.s5 The public roads were accurately divided by mile-stones, and run in a direct line from one city to another, with very...and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rap'd streams.s6 The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent... | |
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The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest... 
