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28 PRELIMINARY ESSAY.

correct these and other evils, and to establish the space that should be left vacant on each side of the subterranean course of an aqueduct, and about its sources, superstructure, &c. Around the latter, a space was to be left on each side of 115 feet ; and on each side of the " within the decree, " it shall not be former, within the city, fifteen feet ; which," says lawful, henceforth, to erect any edifice, or plant any trees and any trees actually growing "* upon the reserved space shall be cut down A heavy pecuniary fine is annexed to the violation of the decree, of which one half on conviction of the offender, to go to the

informer the other to go into the public treasury. j Another decree also forbids the sowing any grain, or cutting any hay, or feeding cattle, within the specified limits. The magnificence of the Romans, in these peculiar and most beneficial structures, was not confined to Rome, for few cities of any note in their extended dominions, appear to have been without one or more aqueducts. Among the most important, from their magnitude and actual state of comparative preservation, may be reckoned those erected in Gaul.t