Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1907 — Peruvians as Engineers. [ARTICLE]

Peruvians as Engineers.

Next to the Romans, the ancient Peruvians were perhnps the most efficient civil engineers. Their roads were marvelous, nod one, the highway from Quito Into the Chilean dominion, was one of the most remarkable roads tho world hA ever known. It was twenty feet wide and two miles In length, passing over snow-capped mountains, through canyons cut for miles through the solid rock, and across turbulent mountain streams and rivers. The feat of constructing this might well try the skill of our best modern engineers.