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stone of which the city is largely built, and the catacombs, were subsequently made available for sewerage purposes, and now few streets are without these subterranean channels. The principal ones convey both foul and clean water, the former flowing along a trench at the bottom and the latter through pipes supported on brackets. They have one set of openings from the street to receive the drainage, another for the ingress and egress of the workmen, and a third for ventilation. The egout Rivoli, under the street of that name, is probably the largest and most imposing. It has broad, neatly kept footpaths, and a railway along which visitors are conveyed in trucks pushed by men until its junction with the main sewer, when they are transferred to boats which convey them to the Place de la Madeleine, where a winding iron staircase leads to the street above. Intermediate between this and the house drain are ten sizes of sewers, all except the two smallest having footways for the pass