A NOVEL ABOUT AQUEDUCTS.

A NOVEL ABOUT AQUEDUCTS. There is a good novel about aqueducts: POMPEII by Robert Harris. (It is also a good novel about volcanic eruptions). In it, Harris says: “The great Roman roads went crashing through nature in a straight line, brooking no opposition. But the aqueducts, which had to drop the width of a finger every hundred yards–any more and the flow would rupture the walls; any less and the water would lie stagnant–they were obliged to follow the contours of the ground.” Even the underground aqueduct had to deal with the irregularities of the uneven terrain above.