that their aqueducts, such as those built by Pisistratus, at Athens, that at Megara, and the celebrated one of Polycrates, at Samos, mentioned by Herodotus, were rather conduits than ranges of buildings like the Roman aqueducts.

But, at a period antecedent probably to the construction of these Grecian aqueducts, King Solomon, one thousand years before the Christian Era, appears by the accounts of modern travellers, to have constructed a similar work. In the Universal History, vol. II, p. 441, we find the following statement :

AdUEDUCT OF SOLOMON, " The pools of Solomon, so called, from his being commonly allowed to have caused them to be made, in order to supply not only his palace and gardens, but as some think, even the city of Jerusalem with water, appear still by what remains of them, to have been a work of immense cost and labor, and worthy of that great monarch. The same we may say, of the sealed fountains, which lie opposite to them, towards the northwest corner of the same hill, in the neighborhood of Bethlehem. These pools are three in a row, one over the other, and so disposed that the water of the uppermost may descend into the second, and from the second into the third. They are quadrangular, and of an equal breadth, viz., about 90 paces but in length they differ, the first being ;

160 paces, the second, 100, and the third, 220. All three are of a considerable depth, well walled and plastered, and contain a large quantity of water. About 120 paces distant spring which supplies them with water. The aqueduct is built on a foundation of is the