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In Troubadour-Land
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In Troubadour-Land
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To make myself understood I must explain. I was in Rome. For ten days with a sirocco wind the rains had descended, as surely they had never come down since the windows of heaven were opened at the Flood. The Tiber rose thirty-two feet. Now Rome is tunnelled under the streets with drains or sewers that carry all the refuse of a great city into the Tiber. But, naturally, when the Tiber swells high above the crowns of the sewers, they are choked. All the foulness of the great town is held back under the houses and streets, and breeds gases loathsome to the nose and noxious to life. Not only so, but a column of water, some twenty to twenty-five feet in height, is acting like the piston of a pop-gun, and is driving all the accumulated gases charged with the germs of typhoid fever into every house which has communication with the sewers.
| Author: S. Baring-Gould |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Mar 16, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: 212 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1544633327 |
| ISBN-13: 9781544633329 |
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