Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667
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              Fen they fell more than fifteen Palmes. </s>
              <s>But the buſineſſe
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              would be long, and not ſo eaſily to be declared, and I am cer­
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              tain that
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              Sig. </s>
              <s>Bartolotti
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              having conſidered this, would alter his
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              judgment, and withall would know that remitting that impedi­
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              ment anew, which I had left for leſſe than three Palmes towards
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              the Sea, the Waters in the Fen would return with the firſt Floods
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              and Raines to the ſame height as before, as likewiſe
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              will do if it ſhall be let again into
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              Serchio.
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              * The Countrey
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              or Province lying
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              round the City,
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              heretofore called
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              Latium
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              <s>Here I intreat your Honour to do me the favour to importune
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              P. Franceſco
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              in my behalf, that he would be pleaſed to deelare
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              my meaning in the aforeſaid Letter to
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              Sig. </s>
              <s>Bartolotti,
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              for I hope
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              that if he will underſtand this point, he will be no longer ſo te­
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              nacious in his opinion.</s>
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              <s>Next that theſe Lords in the Commiſſion of Sewers, with the
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              Right Honourable the Marqueſſe of S.
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              Angelo,
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              and your Honour
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              do approve of my judgment, doth very much rejoyce me; but
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              becauſe that I know that they do it not in deſign to complement
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              me, but onely to ſerve his Highneſs our Grand Duke, I freely
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              profeſs that I will pretend no farther obligations from them there­
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              in, than I account my ſelf to owe to thoſe whoſe opinions are
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              contrary to mine, for that I know that they have the ſame end.
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              <s>The definitive ſentence of this whole buſineſs is, that they give
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              theſe Plains, theſe Draines, and theſe Waters farre fetcht ap­
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              pellations.</s>
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              <s>11. As to the quantity of the Water that
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              diſ­
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              chargeth into the Sea, there are very great diſputes about it, and
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              I have been preſent at ſome of them. </s>
              <s>But let your Honour be­
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              lieve me, that as this is not continual, but only during a few
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              dayes, ſo it will never be of any great prejudice to theſe Fields;
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              and if your Lordſhip would be aſcertained thereof, you may
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              pleaſe to go to
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              at about a mile's diſtance from the
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              Sea, in the time of theſe ſtrong Windes, and obſerve the cur­
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              rent from thence upwards, for you ſhall finde it extream ſlow,
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              and conſequently will know that the quantity of the Water that
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              is repuls'd is very ſmall. </s>
              <s>And this ſeems to be contradicted by the
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              rule of Riſings proceeding from cauſes below, which occaſion no
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              conſiderable alteration far from the Sea.</s>
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              <s>I am neceſſitated to go to morrow out of
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              Rome
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              with his Emi­
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              nence Cardinal
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              Gaetano
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              about certain affairs touching Waters,
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              therefore I ſhall not farther inlarge, but for a cloſe to this tedious
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              Diſcourſe, I conclude in few words, that
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              is by no
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              means to be let into
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              Serchio,
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              nor are there any means intermedi­
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              ate courſes to be taken, for they will alwayes be prejudicial; but
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              is to be diſcharged immediately into the Sea. </s>
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              it is ſtopt up by the fury of the Sea waves, I affirm that it is a </s>
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