Identifier: museumofclassical00falk (find matches)
Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts

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Entrance to first tunnel. From a sketch by Dr. Yates. This wall still exists; it is built of large stones, and is ingood preservation. Of course the sluice-gates are gone, andthere is an open gap, through which the waters pass as formerly;and the conduit which supplied the back-water being defective,the hill is more or less flooded, as abeady stated. About fifty yards from the western extremity of the greatwall, the first or upper tunnel begins. It is 142 yards long,21 feet high, and 21 feet wide; and there is a central channelof from three to four feet in depth and width. The conduit onthe lefl side, before mentioned, is so situated as to insure anabundant supply of water, and it passes along both tunnels andthe intervening cutting, as far as the staircase and bridge,Avhere, in consequence of the fall of the culvert, it meets the
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A vertical section of the upper portiou of the culvert at Seleucia Iieria, as surveyed by Capt. W. Allen, H.N. OF SELFATCIA PIERIA. 123 surface of the hill, and was thus made to supply the town withwater. The cutting between the tunnels is 88 yards long, openat the top; and, according to Captain Allens survey, a verticalsection of it at the upper end measures 150 feet, and it gradu-ally declines to 75 feet, where the second tunnel commences.

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