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

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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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              ſhall be expended to no purpoſe. </s>
              <s>The Lake undoubtedly will
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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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              <s>Upon the 20th. </s>
              <s>of
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              December,
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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.</s>
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              <s>The way to examine the MUD and SAND
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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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              <s>SIGNORE GIO. BASADONNA.</s>
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              <s>Two very conſiderable Objections have been made a­
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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.</s>
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              <s>The ſecond Objection was, that the
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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.</s>
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              <s>Touching the firſt Query, enough hath been ſaid in my firſt
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              Conſideration, where I have plainly diſcovered the deceipt of the
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              Argument, and ſhewn its fallacy; It remaineth now to examine </s>
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