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3Oi Sienna, Leghorne, Tisa.
Observation, may fill a Book with them
at every great Town in Italy.
From Sienna we went forward to
Leghorne, where the Two Ports, the
Bagnio, and Donatellls Statue of the
Great Duke, amidst the Four Slaves
chain’d to his Pedestal, are very noble
Sights. The Square is one of the lar-
gest, and will be one of the most beau-
tiful in Italy, when this Statue is ere-
cted in it, and a Town-house built at
one End of it to front the Church that
stands at the other. They are at a con-
tinual Expence to cleanse the Ports, and
keep ’em from being choak’d up, which
they do by the help of several Engines
that are always at work, and employ
many of the Great Duke’s Slaves. What-
ever part of the Harbour they scoop in,
it has an Inssuence on all the rest, for
the Sea immediately works the whole
Bottom to a Level. They draw a dou-
ble Advantage from the Dirt that is ta-
ken up, as it clears the Port, and at the
same time dries up several Marshes a-
bout the Town, where they lay it from
time to time. One can scarce imagine
how great Profits the Duke of Lufcany
receives from this Angle Place, which
are not generally thought so considcra-
ble, because it passes for a Free Port.
But,
Observation, may fill a Book with them
at every great Town in Italy.
From Sienna we went forward to
Leghorne, where the Two Ports, the
Bagnio, and Donatellls Statue of the
Great Duke, amidst the Four Slaves
chain’d to his Pedestal, are very noble
Sights. The Square is one of the lar-
gest, and will be one of the most beau-
tiful in Italy, when this Statue is ere-
cted in it, and a Town-house built at
one End of it to front the Church that
stands at the other. They are at a con-
tinual Expence to cleanse the Ports, and
keep ’em from being choak’d up, which
they do by the help of several Engines
that are always at work, and employ
many of the Great Duke’s Slaves. What-
ever part of the Harbour they scoop in,
it has an Inssuence on all the rest, for
the Sea immediately works the whole
Bottom to a Level. They draw a dou-
ble Advantage from the Dirt that is ta-
ken up, as it clears the Port, and at the
same time dries up several Marshes a-
bout the Town, where they lay it from
time to time. One can scarce imagine
how great Profits the Duke of Lufcany
receives from this Angle Place, which
are not generally thought so considcra-
ble, because it passes for a Free Port.
But,