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Venice ; that is, at the least thirteen or fourteeti
hundred Years ago. The greatest Vessels ssoat in
some places on those Waters, and there are Cha-
nels by which those that are of no greater Burden
than two hundred Tuns, can go up to Venice it
self. The Sea there hath a free Communication
With the main Sea, by the Ebbing and Flowing
Tides. The Oysters and other Shell-filh slick to
the Foundations of the Houses of Venice and Mu-
rano, as they do in other places to the Rocks;
so that I think it may be truly said, that Venice is
leated in the Sea. Yet since ’tis plain, that this
drown’d Country was formerly a Mariih ; these
Waters have but very little depth, and after all,
this is not the true and ancient Sea : This Extent
of Water is at Venice calld only the Lake or
Maristi, and they gave it the name of Lacuna-. I
observe, that the greatest part of Strangers adopt
this Word, every one disguising it according to
his own Language, for want of a fit term to ex-
press it. Lacune hath another lignification in
French which perhaps is the reason that they
change here the C into G and call it Lagune. Tho’
this be a barbarous Word, and newly invented,
I am resolv'd to make use of it, such as it is, ra-
ther than give my self the double to frame a bet-
ter.
They have Mills, and other Machines, to end-
pty the Mud and Ouse, which gather continu-
ally, and discover themselves in several places,
when the Sea is at the lowest Ebb: They have
turn d the Mouth of the Brent a, and some other
Rivers, to prevent their throwing os Mud and
Sand into the Lagunes; and that the Earth may
not regain from the Sea, which would be very
prejudicial to Venice, whose Strength and Security
consists in its Situation. ’Tis true, that as this
City is oblig’d to labour incessantly, to keep the
M Wa-
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Venice ; that is, at the least thirteen or fourteeti
hundred Years ago. The greatest Vessels ssoat in
some places on those Waters, and there are Cha-
nels by which those that are of no greater Burden
than two hundred Tuns, can go up to Venice it
self. The Sea there hath a free Communication
With the main Sea, by the Ebbing and Flowing
Tides. The Oysters and other Shell-filh slick to
the Foundations of the Houses of Venice and Mu-
rano, as they do in other places to the Rocks;
so that I think it may be truly said, that Venice is
leated in the Sea. Yet since ’tis plain, that this
drown’d Country was formerly a Mariih ; these
Waters have but very little depth, and after all,
this is not the true and ancient Sea : This Extent
of Water is at Venice calld only the Lake or
Maristi, and they gave it the name of Lacuna-. I
observe, that the greatest part of Strangers adopt
this Word, every one disguising it according to
his own Language, for want of a fit term to ex-
press it. Lacune hath another lignification in
French which perhaps is the reason that they
change here the C into G and call it Lagune. Tho’
this be a barbarous Word, and newly invented,
I am resolv'd to make use of it, such as it is, ra-
ther than give my self the double to frame a bet-
ter.
They have Mills, and other Machines, to end-
pty the Mud and Ouse, which gather continu-
ally, and discover themselves in several places,
when the Sea is at the lowest Ebb: They have
turn d the Mouth of the Brent a, and some other
Rivers, to prevent their throwing os Mud and
Sand into the Lagunes; and that the Earth may
not regain from the Sea, which would be very
prejudicial to Venice, whose Strength and Security
consists in its Situation. ’Tis true, that as this
City is oblig’d to labour incessantly, to keep the
M Wa-
J