Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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clare and proteſt that there ſhall follow very great dammages
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to the Fields of the main Land, and extraordinary ſummes
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become almoſt dry, and will prove impaſſible for Navigation,
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with a manifeſt danger of corrupting the Air: And in the laſt
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place there will unavoidably enſue the choaking and ſtoppage of
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the Ports of
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Venice.
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1641. I imparted this my ſecond
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Conſideration to the moſt Excellent
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Signore Baſadonna,
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preſen
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ting him with a Copy thereof amongſt other Writings, which I
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have thought good to inſert, although they ſeem not to belong
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directly to our buſineſſe of the Lake.</
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that entereth and remaineth in the
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LAKE of
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VENICE.
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To the moſt Excellent
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gainſt my opinion concerning the Lake of
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Venice:
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One
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was that, of which I have ſpoken at large in my firſt
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Conſideration, namely, that the
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Brents
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having been taken out of
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the Lake, cannot have been the occaſion of the notable fall of
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the Waters in the Lake, as I pretend, and conſequently, that
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the turning
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Brent
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into the Lake would be no conſiderable reme
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dy, in regard that the water of
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Brent,
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and the great expanſion
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of the Lake over which the water of
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Brent
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is to diffuſe and
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ſpread being conſidered, it is found that the riſe proveth in
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ſenſible.</
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Brent
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is very muddy, and
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therefore if it ſhould fall muddy into the Lake, the Sand would
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ſink and fill up the ſame.</
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Conſideration, where I have plainly diſcovered the deceipt of the
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