Identifier: southernitalysic00karl (find matches)
Title: Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker London : Dulau New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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IToto 77. Ancient Town. SYRACUSE. 40. Rotite. 413 dina, Tyche, and the Teraenites to the great harbour. Gylippus,however, by the construction of three cross-walls, rendered theundertaking useless, just as it was approaching completion. The merit of surrounding these four districts by a City Wall,constructed of huge blocks of stone, is due to Dionysius I. The N.portion was probably erected about 402. Within 20 days, it is said,60,000 workmen with 6000 yoke of oxen constructed 30 stadia(372^0 of the wall, but the work was not completed till the year 385.The circumference of the city at that time was I6V2 M., and 10^2^.of the wall are still extant. The whole of the enclosed space could not have been covered withhouses, but every trace of buildings having completely disappeared, theonly clue to the extent to which the ground was so occupied consists of thenumber of wells which still exist. Two vast Aqueducts supplied the city,one of which was fed, high among the mountains, by the Buttigli

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