( 5 ^; ) 
together, and the Nuchuf adhering to them • {hew there 
was an upper Pavement broke by its fail, when Fire had 
confum d its lupport. 
I have been thus prolix, in giving you the mofl: exa<S 
account I could of this piece of Anerquity ; becaufe we 
cannot have a lefs Senfe of the admirable Rules and Me- 
thods, the Roman People made ufe of, in framing their 
Buildings, and ordering other Conveniences for Enjoy- 
ment and Magnificence 5 than of the incomparable Ma- 
nagement they had in their Military Preparations and 
Dil'cipline; which are To to the Life reprefented by (j) 
JoJfphus, and fo pundually deferibed by ( z.) Vegetius. 
As to the Roman Architedlure, it may not be amifs 
here to note* that when they defign’d a Building, they 
could not immediately begin it : their Preparations re- 
quirdtime: By their well fliap’d durable Bricks, and 
by their Stone-like Mortar, we may plainly perceive, 
they built not with fuch hady Materials as are now 
us’d. Fitruvius (a) and Flin) both diredf, that Brick -- 
fhould be form’d in the Spring, and be two Years dry- 
ing And where Pliny fpeaks of their Mortar, he lays, 
’twas ordain'd by the old Laws f ^ ) of Rome, that no 
Undertaker fliould Build a Houfe with Mortar which had 
not been made three Years before. We find indeed, 
their Walls Icem to bid fair for Eternity 5 whereas ours, 
from Parcimony and ill Management, are fcarce able to 
endure one Age. 
The refl of this learned Difeourfe, hy ithich *tis made 
more than prohalle that here once flood ih? Roman City An- 
deridee, deflroyed Ly the taxons ahoui the Tear 500 ; though 
ver) curious, yet i,eing chiefly Hi (lor; cal, fee ms hot Jo pro- 
perly the Sul\eB of the f' Trunjacl ions. 
(^) Jofephus’% Wars of the J-e-ws Book III. Chap. III. 
{X.) Vef^et. de Re Wilitari. (a J M. Vitruv, tot. Lib. II. Cap, IH. 
Plin Hift. Lib. XXXV. Cap. XIV. ) Plin. Hift. 
Lib. XXXVI. Cap. XXIII. 
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