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ish School at Rome_, i., in., iv. (in progress). For modern aqueducts, see Rickman's _Life of Telford_ (1838); Schramke's _New York Croton Aqueduct; Second Annual Report of the Department of Public Works of the City of New York in 1872; Report of the Aqueduct Commissioners_ (1887-1895), and _The Water Supply of the City of New York_ (1896), by Wegmann; _Memoires sur les eaux de Paris_, presentes par le Prefet de la Seine au Conseil Municipal (1854 and 1858); _Recherches statistiques sur les sources du bassin de la Seine_, par M. Belgrand, Ingenieur en chef des ponts et chaussees (1854); "Descriptions of Mechanical Arrangements of the Manchester Waterworks," by John Frederic Bateman, F.R.S., Engineer-in-chief, from the _Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers_ (1866); _The Glasgow Waterworks_, by James M. Gale, Member Inst. C.E. (1863 and 1864); _The Report of the Royal Commission on Water Supply, and the Minutes of Evidence_ (1867 and 1868). For accounts of other aqueducts, see the Transactions of the Societies of Engineers in the different countries, and the Engineering Journals. FOOTNOTES: [1] There have been found at Caerwent, in Monmouthshire, clear traces of wooden pipes (internal diameter about 2 in.) which must have carried drinking-water, and almost certainly a pressure supply from the surrounding hills. Some patches of lead also have been found obviously nailed on to the pipes at points where they had burst (see _Archaeologia_, 1908). [2] This distance will not agree with the length given on some of the _cippi_ (Lanciani, _Bull. Com._, 1899, 38). [3] The course of the Aqua Claudia was considerably shortened by the cutting of a tunnel 3 m. long under the Monte Affliano in the time of Domitian (T. Ashby, in _Papers of the British School at Rome_, iii, 133). [4] About 3 m. south-east of this point the presence of large quantities of deposit and a sudden fall in the level of the channels seems to indicate the existence of settling tanks, of which no actual traces can be seen. AQUILA [Greek: Akulas], (1) a Jew from Rome, who with his wife Prisca or Priscilla had settled in Corinth, where Paul stayed with them (Acts xviii. 2,3). They became Christians and fellow-workers with Paul, to whom they seem to have shown their devotion in some special way (Rom. xvi. 3, 4). (2) A native of
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