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160 A "New Voyage Vol. I.
will perceive, that I take care to answer all your
particular Questions: If you have forgotten any
thing, you may acquaint me with it in your
next Letter.
Venice is so lingular a place, and fo considerable
in all respeds, that I resolv’d to consider it with
care : I have filled all my Memorials; and I hope
I fliall be able to give a satisfastory Answer to
most of your Questions. But I must advertise
you of two things, before I put an end to this
little Preface. The first is, that I reserve some
Observations, to be communicated to you on some
other occasion. The other is, that I will not
oblige my self to any order in my Remarks, but
relate things as I chanc’d to meet with them, as I
have already intimated to you in another place.
We parted from Padua on the twentieth of the
last Month, and came hither betimes that Even-
ing : There are many good Villages on the way,
and a great many Houses of Pleasure, which be-
long to noble Venetians, and were contriv’d by
Palladio. Our Augsburg Guide brought us to
lideftre, which is a little City on the Bank of the
Guls, five Miles from Venice. I have read some-
where in Menserass History, that the Adriatick-
* others far, Sea was frozen in the Year * 860, and that they
8 5.9- went jn a Coach from the main Land to Venice.
As for us, we were oblig’d to take Gondolas at
Meftre, and were about an Hour and an half on
the Water.
v ENICE, That I may give you a true Idea of Venice, I
call d the Rich. muss. jn the p|ace describe thole Waters in the
midst of which it is seated. The general Opi-
nion of Geographers is, That Venice is built in
the Sea, and this in some measure is true ; never-
theless, it requires Explication : ’Tis certain it is
not the main Sea, but in drown’d Lands, yet
such as were drown’d before the Building of
Venice 5
will perceive, that I take care to answer all your
particular Questions: If you have forgotten any
thing, you may acquaint me with it in your
next Letter.
Venice is so lingular a place, and fo considerable
in all respeds, that I resolv’d to consider it with
care : I have filled all my Memorials; and I hope
I fliall be able to give a satisfastory Answer to
most of your Questions. But I must advertise
you of two things, before I put an end to this
little Preface. The first is, that I reserve some
Observations, to be communicated to you on some
other occasion. The other is, that I will not
oblige my self to any order in my Remarks, but
relate things as I chanc’d to meet with them, as I
have already intimated to you in another place.
We parted from Padua on the twentieth of the
last Month, and came hither betimes that Even-
ing : There are many good Villages on the way,
and a great many Houses of Pleasure, which be-
long to noble Venetians, and were contriv’d by
Palladio. Our Augsburg Guide brought us to
lideftre, which is a little City on the Bank of the
Guls, five Miles from Venice. I have read some-
where in Menserass History, that the Adriatick-
* others far, Sea was frozen in the Year * 860, and that they
8 5.9- went jn a Coach from the main Land to Venice.
As for us, we were oblig’d to take Gondolas at
Meftre, and were about an Hour and an half on
the Water.
v ENICE, That I may give you a true Idea of Venice, I
call d the Rich. muss. jn the p|ace describe thole Waters in the
midst of which it is seated. The general Opi-
nion of Geographers is, That Venice is built in
the Sea, and this in some measure is true ; never-
theless, it requires Explication : ’Tis certain it is
not the main Sea, but in drown’d Lands, yet
such as were drown’d before the Building of
Venice 5