Gell, William; Gandy, John P. : Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii (Band 1) (London, 1824)

72 POMPEIANA.

of irregular forms. It remains in many
places perfect to the present day.

From the Appian Way at Sinuessa,
that afterwards called the Domitian
branched off to Puteoli and Baiae; while
other ramifications continued along the
coast through Herculaneum to Pompeii,
where the Sarnus was crossed by a bridge,
from which the road, immediately dividing,
might be pursued to Stabia or Nocera.

Pompeii might also be approached
from the other side of Vesuvius through
JSTola by the Popilian Way, which ran
through that city to Eeggio \

These ways, conducting through a
country naturally enriched by all the
varieties of nature, were further embel-
lished with the most beautiful objects of

Notwithstanding the excellence of their roads, the Ro-
mans travelled at best but slowly. Augustus took two days
to go from Rome to Prssneste, 25 miles. Horace, in his
journey to Brundusium, takes the same time to go 43 miles;
but he thinks an expeditious traveller might do it in one day.
There are, however, instances of extraordinary speed.