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BigmanPigman

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3. I went to see the aqueduct too

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 07:46 PM

Jun 2019

and was with a tour (only time I ever did that but I don't drive so well so....). I couldn't figure out how the water went down the aqueduct with no barriers to direct it and keep it from spilling over the sides. No one on the entire bus could answer that question. When I got home I checked it out and apparently the original walls that did direct and hold the water fell apart over the years and no longer exist. This was all done with gravity. Brilliant engineers those Romans.

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*Driving Across France: Trip Journal & Francophile Heaven [View all] appalachiablue Jun 2019 OP

read that on kos. nice diary. avoid paris as much as possible nt msongs Jun 2019 #1

Jealous. tymorial Jun 2019 #2

That's a wonderful base for a future return trip, smthg. appalachiablue Jun 2019 #4

I went to see the aqueduct too BigmanPigman Jun 2019 #3

You mean walls were once on the very top of a structure like this? appalachiablue Jun 2019 #5

Not quite walls but sort of. BigmanPigman Jun 2019 #6