¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot
Page 196 of 600
Author:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Place:
London
Publisher:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Physical description:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Subject heading:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Location mark:
II A-4.101
Intern ID:
134614
blocks of stone remain. And more than this ; of the two inscriptions referred to, one belongs to the lower, and the other to thè upper, reach of road, Of these inscriptions, the first—the lower—is thè more ctirious. For centuries it has been claimed as offering con clusive proof that the road over this pass was constracted, or made practicable for vehicles, by Julius .Cassar bimself, Yet of all the various trauscriptions, of which a dozen might he quoted, no two are exactly alike ; and the last
transcrìber— a writer in a Carinthian Journal, who visited the spot in 1855, and whose copy Churchill took the trouble to verify—does not find the name of Casar at all, Most of the others, beginmng with one in the fifteenth Century, profess to bave distili ctly seen c C. Julius Cassar, viam hanc rot FJ (rotabilem fecit), The entire inscription, as given by the writer in the Journal, runs fhus :—