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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1686. Excerpt: ... sink of late so much that the preserving Venice Jtil an Island, is like to become as great a charge to the Venetians, as the keeping out the se$a is to the Dutch; for they use. all poflibile industry to cleanse the Channels of their lagunes, and keep them full of water: and yet many think that the water hath fafled so much in this last age, that if it continues to abate at the seme rate, within an age or two more Venice may becom apart of the Terra firma; It is certainly the most surprizing sight in the whole World, to see so vast a city, scituated thus in the Sea, and such a number of Islands so united together by Bridges brought to such a regular figure, the Pilotty supplying the want of earth to build on, and all so nobly built, which is of all the things that one can fee the most amazing. And tho this Republick is much funk from, what it was, both by the great lofles they have suffered in-their Wars with the Turks, and by the great decaj of Trade, yet there is an incredible Wealth, and a vast plenty of all things in this place. I will not offer to describe neither the Church nor the Palace of S. Mark which are too well known to need a long digression to be made for them the painting of the Walls and the roofs of the Halls, and publick Rooms in, the Palace, are of vast value: Here 1 saw that Stofy of Pope Alexander the 111, treading on the neck of the Emperor Frederick BarbarosTa. The nobleness of the staircases, the riches of the Halls, and the beauty of the whole I buil building, are much prejudiced by the beastliness of those that walk along, aud that leave their marks behind them, as. if this were rather a common house of Office, then-so Noble a Palace: And the great Hall, where the whole body of the Nobility meet, in the Great Councel, hath nothin...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150380334
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150380330
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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