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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
these inundations always subside as soon
as might be expected from the general
heat and dryness of the climate; their
pernicious effects are sometimes felt for
months afterwards, and I recollect to have
myself observed in March 1802, in the
neighborhood of Mantua, or rather about
ten miles lower down, between the Mincio
and the Po, vast sheets of water, and
whole fields immerged, the effects of an
inundation some months before. Virgil,
whose farm bordered upon the Mineius,
seems to have had a particular apprehen-
sion of the consequences of inundations,
if we may judge from the accurate details
which he gives of the signs of approaching
rain, and the picture which he draws of
their disastrous consequences. The traveller
therefore, who may be surprised by these
periodical showers, if in compliance with
the advice given above, he establish him-
self in the first commodious inn, will not
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
these inundations always subside as soon
as might be expected from the general
heat and dryness of the climate; their
pernicious effects are sometimes felt for
months afterwards, and I recollect to have
myself observed in March 1802, in the
neighborhood of Mantua, or rather about
ten miles lower down, between the Mincio
and the Po, vast sheets of water, and
whole fields immerged, the effects of an
inundation some months before. Virgil,
whose farm bordered upon the Mineius,
seems to have had a particular apprehen-
sion of the consequences of inundations,
if we may judge from the accurate details
which he gives of the signs of approaching
rain, and the picture which he draws of
their disastrous consequences. The traveller
therefore, who may be surprised by these
periodical showers, if in compliance with
the advice given above, he establish him-
self in the first commodious inn, will not