LAGO DI [See also:

• LAT

Lat. Lacus Fucinus] See also:

• LAGO DI [Lat. Lacus Fucinus] FUCINO

FUCINO  , a See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

lake See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of the Abruzzi, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• AQUILA
• AQUILA ('AxdXas), (1)
• AQUILA, CASPAR [KASPAR ADLER] (1488-1560)
• AQUILA, SERAFINO

Aquila, 2 M . E. of the See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• AVEZZANO

Avezzano . The lake was 37 M. in circumference and 65 ft. deep . From the lack of an outlet, the level of the lake was subject to See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations, often fraught with disastrous consequences . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as A.D . 52 the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• CLAUDIUS
• CLAUDIUS [TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS NERO GERMANICUS]
• CLAUDIUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
• CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS (174o-1815)

Claudius, realizing a project of See also:

• JULIUS

Julius See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar, constructed a See also:

• TUNNEL (Fr. tonne!, later tonneau, a diminutive from Low Lat. tonna, tunna, a tun, cask)

tunnel 31 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, with 40 shafts at intervals, by which the surplus See also:

• WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters found an outlet to the Liris (or Garigliano) . No less than 30,000 workmen were employed for eleven years in See also:

• DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving this tunnel . In the following reign the tunnel was allowed to fall into disrepair, but was repaired by See also:

• TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. D. 53-117)

Trajan . When, however, it finally went out of use is uncertain . The various attempts made to reopen it from 1240 onwards were unsuccessful . By 1852 the lake had gradually risen until it was 30 ft. above its See also:

• ORIGINAL

original level, and had become a source of danger to the surrounding countryside . A See also:

• COMPANY

company undertook to drain it on See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of becoming proprietors of the site when dry; in 1854, however, the rights and privileges were See also:

• PURCHASED

purchased by See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince Giulio Torlonia (d .

1886), the great See also:

• ROMAN

Roman banker, who carried on the See also:

• WORK

work at his own expense until, in 1876, the lake was finally drained at the cost of some j;I,7oo,000 . The reclaimed See also:

• AREA

area is 121 M. long, 7 M. broad, and is cultivated by families from the Torlonia estates . The outlet by which it was drained is 4 M. long and 24 sq. yds. in See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section . See A . Brisse and L. de Rotron, Le Dessechement du See also:

• LAC

lac Fucin, execute See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par S . E. le Prince A . Torlonia (See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, 1876) . (T .