Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
< >
page |< < of 137 > >|
    <archimedes>
      <text>
        <body>
          <chap>
            <pb xlink:href="068/01/125.jpg" pagenum="111"/>
            <p type="main">
              <s>All which Operations might be brought to perfection with
                <lb/>
              150. thouſand Crowns, well and faithfully laid out; which ſumm
                <lb/>
              the
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Bologneſi
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              will not be unwilling to provide; beſides that thoſe
                <lb/>
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Ferrareſi
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              ought to contribute to it, who ſhall partake of the
                <lb/>
              benefit.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Let me be permitted in this place to propoſe a thing which I
                <lb/>
              have thought of, and which peradventure might occaſion two
                <lb/>
              benefits at once, although it be not wholly new. </s>
              <s>It was in the
                <lb/>
              time of
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Pope Paul
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              V. propounded by one
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Creſcenzio
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              an Ingi­
                <lb/>
              neer, to cut the
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Main-Po,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              above
                <emph type="italics"/>
              le Papozze
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              ; and having made a
                <lb/>
              ſufficient evacuation to derive the water thereof into the P
                <emph type="italics"/>
              o
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              of
                <lb/>
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Adriano,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              and ſo to procure it to be Navigable, which was not at
                <lb/>
              that time effected, either by reaſon of the oppoſitions of thoſe,
                <lb/>
              whoſe poſſeſſions were to be cut thorow, or by reaſon of the
                <lb/>
              great ſum of money that was neceſſary for the effecting of it: But
                <lb/>
              in viewing thoſe Rivers, we have obſerved, that the ſedge cutting
                <lb/>
              might eaſily be made below
                <emph type="italics"/>
              le Papozze,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              in digging thorow the
                <lb/>
              Bank called
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Santa Maria,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              & drawing a Trench of the bigneſs that
                <lb/>
              skilful Artiſts ſhall judge meet unto the P
                <emph type="italics"/>
              o
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              ^{*} of
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Ariano,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              below the
                <lb/>
                <arrow.to.target n="marg982"/>
                <lb/>
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Secche
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              of the ſaid S.
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Maria
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              ; which as being a work of not
                <lb/>
              above 160. Perches in length, would be finiſhed with onely
                <lb/>
              12000. Crowns.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="margin">
              <s>
                <margin.target id="marg982"/>
              * Of
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Adriano.
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Firſt; it is to be believed, that the waters running that way,
                <lb/>
              would not fail to open that Mouth into the Sea, which at pre­
                <lb/>
              ſent is almoſt choakt up by the Shelf of Sand, which the new
                <lb/>
              Mouth of
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Ponto Virro
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              hath brought thither; and that it would
                <lb/>
              again bring into uſe the Port
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Goro,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              and its Navigation.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>And haply experience might teach us, that the ſuperficies of
                <lb/>
              P
                <emph type="italics"/>
              o
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              might come to fall by this aſſwagement of Water, ſo that the
                <lb/>
              acceſſion of
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Reno
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              would queſtionleſs make no riſing in it:
                <lb/>
              Whereupon, if it ſhould ſo fall out, thoſe Princes would have
                <lb/>
              no reaſon to complain; who ſeem to queſtion, leſt by this new
                <lb/>
              acceſſion of water into P
                <emph type="italics"/>
              o,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              the Sluices might be endangered.
                <lb/>
              </s>
              <s>Which I thought not fit to omit to repreſent to your Lordſhip;
                <lb/>
              not, that I propoſe it to you as a thing abſolutely certain, but that
                <lb/>
              you might, if you ſo pleaſed, lay it before perſons whoſe judge­
                <lb/>
              ments are approved in theſe affairs.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>I return now from where I degreſt, and affirm it as indubita­
                <lb/>
              ble, that
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Reno
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              neither can, nor ought to continue longer where
                <lb/>
              it at this day is; and that it cannot go into any other place but
                <lb/>
              that, whither
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Cardinal Capponi
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
              deſigned to carry it, and which
                <lb/>
              at preſent pleaſeth me better than any other; or into
                <emph type="italics"/>
              Volana,
                <emph.end type="italics"/>
                <lb/>
              whence it was taken away; the vigilance of Men being able to
                <lb/>
              obviate part of thoſe miſchiefs, which it may do there.</s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>But from its Removal, beſides the alleviation of the harm </s>
            </p>
          </chap>
        </body>
      </text>
    </archimedes>
Impressum