F. which was apparently the name of the maker or architect, who laid down the conduit pipe in the time of the Romans. I delayed

not to inform Mr. Begon, at Rochefort, of this discovery, because he had always favoured my project of conducting water along the bottom and across the Charente, which would not have been half so difficult as it had no doubt been, to lay one across the Rhone where this was found.

Hence it may be believed, as I think now myself, that many things supposed now-a-days to be new and never to have been previously invented, may have been thought of long before, even in remote ages." Pp. 129, 130.

Ancient Aqueduct of Metz.

This Aqueduct was built by the Romans when that city

was under their dominion ; but it is difficult to fix upon the

precise era of its construction. It is said in the history of

the city of Metz that the Roman legions built roads in the year 70 ; but there is reason to suppose that the construction of this Aqueduct, as well as that of other important

structures built by the Romans at Metz, belongs to a time more remote, and that the date of the reign of the first emperors may be the era when the legions of Caesar occupied the country of the Gauls.

The total length of the Aqueduct was 14 miles, and the fall for this distance was about 73 feet.

The channel-way was 6i feet high, by 3 feet wide, constructed with stone masonry and having an arch over the top : the interior face of the walls and the bottom was