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80 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.sand Spanish feet hy Jour hundred.thirty feet.Tht: scatsoccupy aThreearches of tlleaquaduct which supplies the '12al:lm'lGlI..llUremaill:;ponderous ashlar work, of solidity of the truebut most ofits materials were taken in modern days to coby which the town is DOW supplied.But the Grand Aqustrongest exemplification extantofthe leŒ~~i~~7Uum,thahsource/(Ç)fin architecture and indeed throughout nature,} is a work truly w('J)!~tof Roman resourees, and it might he sai .•..... cianelegane~, alth(J)the Greeks did'not much ·em.bark inJ~bisQfstructl1re. The RoQBJthe.other band, seem to have chosen their stations remote fro.mfihatarticle of life, water, for the sole motive of~g~;.ving the pm~er t~~~l".badof hringing it aftel' them. 'j'he extent o(;t,~~~~ ~~~~n perfec~, ~r~g;~.evenmiles; and its ruins still in their presentstate,f(J)fj!~hatdistance, ibitone of the most cnrious and interesting si. perspeet~ atcan he imagined: viewing them, we thinl{image of that site of grand ideas, Persec\'ening sun, or hy the delightfulJ110Pnlighean he more striking than thi5 line ofand heautiful are so happily comhined.from the lowest bases, cannat he less than ..... ,.·''"'1-'0·it crosses the little river Albarregas.most surprising of its featmes.architect was a bold man.Hs lightnessYet its de.eayisthe imperfection of an earthly matter,in principle.It consists at its lower levelwould he very curions to he able to as(;ertalllfolding was obtained for such a work,whereon it was put togethcr.It mustfore us the