The streets of Valletta, paved with stone, run along and across the ridge, and end on each side towards the water in steep flights of steps.
Another method of distribution, largely adopted, is to run the lead cables into the interior of blocks of buildings, and to terminate them there in iron boxes from which the circuits are distributed to the surrounding buildings by means of rubber-covered wires run along the walls.
These segments are very mobile, and as the rove-beetles run along they often curl the abdomen upwards and forwards like the tail of a scorpion.
Nearly all these instruments register the revolution of a small wheel of known circumference, which is run along the line to be measured.
The rivers having, by the silt of ages, gradually raised their beds, now run along high levels.
