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Taking up next the ports and the waterways, we find that, their boats being small, the works that they needed, and that they therefore executed, would not look large from our modern point of view; but, considering the times, some of them were magnificent pieces of engineering.
As to ports, when they could they built them in a river, erecting quays of stone or wood. They took advantage of the shelter afforded by natural features, and built protect ing breakwaters when they needed them.
When they could reach dry land to build upon they always did So, but when not, they sunk large stones, or cradles filled with masonry, locating them by means of divers, or else they built dikes, and ran in liquid concrete, which, on solidifying, formed, as it were, a solid rock.
They had a great many ports all along the Mediterranean. They had, however, no efficient system of dredging, and their ports were always silting up.
Of course, their navigable rivers formed the natural com. Mercial highways, as indeed they did everywhere before the introduction of railroads; hence, they carried out such improvements as they could, and such as were needed at thetime, by removing obstructions from the river beds and by building sea walls.
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