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218 4 Journey srom Venice to Genoa.
peculiar Contrivances, and Engines , and the kind assistance the
listers of Phaeton, who mourn here for the dismal fall of their Bro-
ther, when Jupiter struck him down from Heaven into the Po.
Excipit Eridanus sumantiaque abluit ora.
Ediranus did his Limbs imbrace
And wafll’d his smoaking 5un-burnt face.
And having stood so long by the banks of this River,they may be
thought to be more conversant with its Course and Passages. They tye
ropes in this Country to the tops of high Poplars, one end on one side
of the River, and the other on the other, or build high Beacons, or '
Posts like those made use of in the Strapado-, on each side os the River:
and upon a line fixed to them, they put a running Pully, to which
they fix another long rope, and to the further end of this rope
the boat is tyed, and by sleering the head of the boat obliquely cross
the River, the force of the Stream makes the pully run from one side
to another; by which means we palled it without labour or trou-
ble.
Sine Remits Edu
Conca'va Trap Edo Cymba rudente uehit.
A rope drawn through a Fully soon convey’d •
Us cross the Po, without the Rowers aid :
And a small boat, without broad sayls and oars,
Did gently waft us to the neighbouring Ihores.
Brefcello.
I had formerly palled the Po, as high as Turin, and at another
time went by boat through a cut made out of the Po into the A-
thefts, and once I travelled for some space together on horse-back at
the bottom of a branch of this River, where the banks being broken
down it had forsaken its channel-
The next town we came to was Guastala, belonging to a Soveraign
Prince, the Duke of GuaEala ; a handsom small Town at present, but
formerly larger, and more considerable when there were two General
Councils held here, one under Pope Z>rlan the second, and another un-
der Pope Pafcal the second.
From Guadiala we travelled by Gualtea, to Brefcello or Brixellum, a
compad close strong Town, fortisied after the modern way, upon the
side os the Po : An old Rowan place of habitation, where the Emperor
Oiho Raid in his journey against ViteUius, when after the conssid: at
Labinta, then called Bebriacum, he took a resolution of dispatching
himself, not out os any despair of overcoming all difsiculties, but
rather out of his modesty, as Suetonius relates it, and unwilling-
ness to seize upon, and continue so great an Empire, with the ha-
zard of so many brave mens lives that served him, and therefore
early in the morning after a draught of cold water he stabbed him-
self with a dagger under the left Pap,inthe ninety sifth day of his reign,
and the thirty eight year of his life. This town hath at present about
three or four thousand Inhabitants, and a good Garrison belonging to
the Duke of Modena, it being near to the state of Milan, Mantua, and
Parma. The Spanijh Troops, under the command of the Marquiss of
Carracena>
peculiar Contrivances, and Engines , and the kind assistance the
listers of Phaeton, who mourn here for the dismal fall of their Bro-
ther, when Jupiter struck him down from Heaven into the Po.
Excipit Eridanus sumantiaque abluit ora.
Ediranus did his Limbs imbrace
And wafll’d his smoaking 5un-burnt face.
And having stood so long by the banks of this River,they may be
thought to be more conversant with its Course and Passages. They tye
ropes in this Country to the tops of high Poplars, one end on one side
of the River, and the other on the other, or build high Beacons, or '
Posts like those made use of in the Strapado-, on each side os the River:
and upon a line fixed to them, they put a running Pully, to which
they fix another long rope, and to the further end of this rope
the boat is tyed, and by sleering the head of the boat obliquely cross
the River, the force of the Stream makes the pully run from one side
to another; by which means we palled it without labour or trou-
ble.
Sine Remits Edu
Conca'va Trap Edo Cymba rudente uehit.
A rope drawn through a Fully soon convey’d •
Us cross the Po, without the Rowers aid :
And a small boat, without broad sayls and oars,
Did gently waft us to the neighbouring Ihores.
Brefcello.
I had formerly palled the Po, as high as Turin, and at another
time went by boat through a cut made out of the Po into the A-
thefts, and once I travelled for some space together on horse-back at
the bottom of a branch of this River, where the banks being broken
down it had forsaken its channel-
The next town we came to was Guastala, belonging to a Soveraign
Prince, the Duke of GuaEala ; a handsom small Town at present, but
formerly larger, and more considerable when there were two General
Councils held here, one under Pope Z>rlan the second, and another un-
der Pope Pafcal the second.
From Guadiala we travelled by Gualtea, to Brefcello or Brixellum, a
compad close strong Town, fortisied after the modern way, upon the
side os the Po : An old Rowan place of habitation, where the Emperor
Oiho Raid in his journey against ViteUius, when after the conssid: at
Labinta, then called Bebriacum, he took a resolution of dispatching
himself, not out os any despair of overcoming all difsiculties, but
rather out of his modesty, as Suetonius relates it, and unwilling-
ness to seize upon, and continue so great an Empire, with the ha-
zard of so many brave mens lives that served him, and therefore
early in the morning after a draught of cold water he stabbed him-
self with a dagger under the left Pap,inthe ninety sifth day of his reign,
and the thirty eight year of his life. This town hath at present about
three or four thousand Inhabitants, and a good Garrison belonging to
the Duke of Modena, it being near to the state of Milan, Mantua, and
Parma. The Spanijh Troops, under the command of the Marquiss of
Carracena>