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

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              in the Emiſſary, in the ſpace of three or four dayes, the Fields
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              have been haply drained. </s>
              <s>But on the other part, the proprietors
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              bordering on the Lake oppoſed this, grievouſly complaining, that
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              whilſt the Floodgates are ſhut, and the courſe of the Water of
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              the Sluice hindered, the Lake overflowes the Lands adjacent, by
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              meanes of the Rivers that fell into it, to their very great damage;
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              and ſo continuing their ſuits, they got more of vexation than ſa­
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              tisfaction. </s>
              <s>Now, being asked my opinion herein, I judged it
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              requiſite (ſince the point in controverſie was about the riſing
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              and falling of the Lake) that the ſaid abatement, when the
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              Floodgates are open, and increaſe when they are ſhut ſhould be
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              exactly meaſured, and told them, that it might be eaſily done at
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              a time when no extraordinary Waters fell into the Lake, neither
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              of Rain, or otherwiſe; and the Lake was undiſturbed by winds
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              that might drive the Water to any ſide, by planting neer to an
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              Iſlet, which is about the middle of the Lake, a thick poſt, on
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              which ſhould be made the marks of the Lakes riſing and falling
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              for two or three dayes. </s>
              <s>I would not, at that time, pawn, or re­
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              ſolutely declare, my judgment, in regard I might be, by divers
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              accidents miſled. </s>
              <s>But this I told them, that (by what I have
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              demonſtrated, and particularly that which I have ſaid above
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              touching the Lake of
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              Perugia
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              ) I inclined greatly to think,
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              that theſe riſings and fallings would prove imperceptible, and
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              inconſiderable; and therefore, that in caſe experience ſhould
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              make good my reaſon, it would be to no purpoſe for them to
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              continue diſputing and wrangling, which cauſeth, (according
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              to the Proverb)
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              A great deal of cry,
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              but produceth not much
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              Wool.
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              <s>Laſtly, it importing very much to know what a Rain conti­
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              nued for many dayes can do in raiſing theſe Lakes, I will here in­
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              ſert the Copy of a Letter, which I writ formerly to
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              Signior Ga­
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              lilæo Galilæi,
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              chief Philoſopher to the Grand Duke of
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              Tuſcany,
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              wherein I have delivered one of my conceits in this buſineſſe, and
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              it may be, by this Letter, I may, more ſtrongly, confirm what I
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              have ſaid above.</s>
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