Castelli, Benedetto
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Of the mensuration of running waters
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1661
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DRAINING
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OF THE
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Pontine Fenns.
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of S. BENEDETTO ALOISIO, and Profeſſor
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VIII. in the
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CONSIDERATION
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>Amongſt the enterprizes by me eſteemed, if not ab
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ſolutely impoſſible, , at leaſt exceeding difficult,
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one was that famous one of Draining the
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Pontine
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; and therefore I was thorowly reſolved
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never to apply my minde thereunto, although
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by my Patrons I ſhould be commanded to the
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ſame: accounting that it was an occaſion rather of loſing repu
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tation by the miſcarriage of the attempt, than of gaining fame by
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theleſs, having of late years obſerved the place, and ſailed through
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thoſe Chanels, and thoſe Waters; after I had made ſome reflection
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thereupon, I thought that the enterprize was not ſo difficult as
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I had at firſt conceited it to be; and I am the more confirmed in
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this opinion, upon the inducement of that which I have written </
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