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Excerpt from Fifty Years of My Life, Vol. 1 of 2
But the work begun by Drusus was completed by his son Germanicus. Hence it is just possible that Keppel Island may have been the head-quarters of one, if not two, Roman armies.
Of all the works of ancient Rome, there are prob ably few that have proved of such lasting usefulness as this F ossa Drusiana. When I first came in sight of the canal, a steamboat was paddling down stream on its way to Duisburg.
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