 | William Forsyth - Abernethy and Kincardine (Scotland : Parish) - 1900 - 488 pages
...pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the Empire." Gibbon says : — " The public roads were accurately divided by milestones,...one city to another, with very little respect for obstacles, either of nature, or of private propeity." ..." They united the subjects of the most distant... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 642 pages
...north-west to the J. south-east point of the Empire was drawn out to the length Of 4080 Roman miles. The public roads were accurately divided by milestones,...the obstacles either of nature or private property. . . . The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace, which commanded the adjacent country,... | |
 | Economics - 1903 - 722 pages
...remotest parts with the center. Neither mountains nor streams were permitted to separate city and city. Mountains were perforated and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams. The solid construction of the Roman highways has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen... | |
 | Urquhart Atwell Forbes, Arnold C. Burmester - Great Britain - 1904 - 298 pages
...Pearson's ' Historical Maps,' Essay I., p. 4. t ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire/ vol. i., p. 61. to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of Nature or private property.' To insure the straight course of the latter, huge marshes, as has been said, were drained, rapid rivers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 pages
...Mamelukes, Syria was supposed to contain sixty thousand villages (Histoire de Timur Bee, 1. vc 20). roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran...bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.90 The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country,... | |
 | Felix Arnold - School management and organization - 1908 - 448 pages
...were 4080 Roman miles of roads. The public roads were accurately divided by mile-stones and ran in direct line from one city to another, with very little...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,... | |
 | Ralph Straus - Carriages and carts - 1912 - 386 pages
...shown by their amazing roads. Such roads had never before been constructed. They were, says Gibbon, " accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct...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,... | |
 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - Commonwealth countries - 1913 - 280 pages
...noted that the Canadian Pacific railway from Montreal to Vancouver covers 2900 miles. Gibbon continues, "Mountains were perforated and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams " ; and of the Roman posts he writes, " By the help of these relays it was easy to travel an... | |
 | Cyrus Kehr - Art, Municipal - 1926 - 296 pages
...Commercial Congress, January, 1918. Of the great roads of ancient Rome the historian, Gibbon, says : "The public roads were accurately divided by milestones,...one city to another, with very little respect for obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over... | |
 | James Boyd White - Communication in law - 1985 - 274 pages
...south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty Roman miles. The public roads were accurately divided by milestones,...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,... | |
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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... 
