A. ELEVATION, WITH THE BRIDGE UNDER THE GATE. B. PLAN AND SECTIONS-A. B. THE BRIDGE; C. D. SECTIONS. PLATE XV. RIVER ALMO. MOUTH IN THE PULCHRUM LITTUS. VIEW. THIS is the mouth within the Walls of Rome from the earliest period, and it was here in all probability that the priests washed the blood off their knives, and not at S. Paul's, a mile outside the town. The remains of the early wall of tufa in this part are well shewn in the drawing, and the mouth for the stream to pass through, left when the wall was built. This was part of the second Wall of Rome, built when the peace was made between the Romans and the Sabines. The construction of that period, of the usual large blocks of tufa with very fine joints, is clearly shewn in the drawing. RIVER ALMO. PLATE XVI. MOUTH IN THE PULCHRUM LITTUS. PLAN. IN the Plan the old arrangement is clearly shewn, and the division of the stream into two branches, one of which now turns a millwheel, and is probably part of the alterations in the twelfth century, -this is the straight line. The other is probably the original end of the stream, or at least of this branch of it. The frequent change of the sand-banks by the great floods of the Tiber sometimes obscure this part. Advantage was taken of the water being low in the Tiber to get this plan and the view in Plate XV. |