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  • AQUEDUCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEDUCT

    Ground, to preserve the Level of the Water, and convey it, by a Canal, from one place to another. See WATER. There are Aqueducts under ground, and others raised above it, supported by Arches. The Romans were very magnificent in their Aqueducts; they had...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    are also used as buttresses and counter-forts to support large walls laid deep in the earth, for foundationsof bridges and aqueducts, for triumphal arches, gates,windows, etc. See BUTTRESS, ARC-BOUTANT, etc. Arches are either circular, elliptical, or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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