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The album was originally the tablet on which the Roman praetor's edict was written.
It was white, and hung up as a bulletin-board in a public place.
It is now a book of friendly memorials: signatures, prose or poetic effusions, or photographs.
It dates back to the church blank-book, or white-page book, in which were inscribed the names of benefactors of the church, in order that the appointed prayers might be made as the feast-days of their chosen saints recurred.
The Venerable Bede, in his preface to the Life of St. Cuthbert, A. D. 721, speaks of the record of the saint's name in the album at Lindisfarne.
The name frequently occurs in ecclesiastical and other writings.
Al′bu-men process in photography.
This process antedated the collodion, which is much more sensitive.
It was invented by Niepce de St. Martin.
The glass receives a coating from a solution of albumen to which bromide and iodide of potassium and a drop of caustic potash have been added, and after d
ere built, one on the plateau, the other on the shore.
The former, for nearly 2,000 miles, crossed sierras, gorges, and rivers, by tunnels, bridges, and ferries.
The road was 20 feet wide, faced with flags covered with bitumen, and had milestones.
The shore road was built on an embankment, with a clay parapet on each side, and shade-trees.
It was supported by piles, in places.
Every five miles there was a post-house.
Humboldt declares the road magnificent.
We learn from the venerable Bede (A. D. 700) that the Roman roads of England were built at various periods in the second, third, and fourth centuries; the people, criminals, and the Roman soldiery being employed thereon.
The four principal ones were, —
1. Watling Street; from Kent, by way of London, to Cardigan Bay, in Wales.
2. Ikenild Street; from St. David's, Wales, by way of Birmingham, Derby, and York, to Tynemouth, England.
3. Fosse Way; from Cornwall to Lincoln.
4. Ermin Street; from St. David's to Sout