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

Before noticing these, however, a few words must be given to Carthage, the great rival of Rome, which also had a vast aqueduct but its date and origin are uncertain. By some it is viewed as a monument of the enterprise and skill of the Carthaginiansothers, among whom is Fischer D'Erlach, in his Architecture Historique, and Malte it a Roman work, after these Brun, consider haughty conquerors had annihilated Carthaginian power, and founded a second Carthage under Roman auspices. However the fact be, and whoever the constructors, it was a most magnificent work, carried through mountains, and over valleys, for a space of 70 miles ! Near Udena, there is an arcade of more than a thousand arches, some of them exceeding 100 feet in

height. The cement used in building the work is as hard as the stones themselves, and, such is the tenacity of that which coated the water channel, that where flakes of it of 100 feet in length have fallen from the wall, they lie unbroken. The conduit is 6 feet high within, and 4 feet wide, "arched to a point" says Stuart. At Ariana, about four miles from Tunis, other remains of this aqueduct are visible. When mountains were tunnelled in its course, at every 60 yards, vertical openings were driven through from the surface of the channel way to the upper air.