1donna, a Senatour of great worth and merit, that I would inge
nuouſly deliver my opinion touching the ſtate of the Lake
of Venice; and after I had diſcourſed with his Honour ſeve
ral times, in the end I had order to ſet down the whole
buſineſſe in writing, who having afterwards read it privately,
the ſaid Signore imparted the ſame, with like privacy, to the
moſt Serene PRINCE, and I received order to repreſent the
ſame to the full Colledge, as accordingly I did in the Moneth
of May, the ſame year, and it was as followeth.
nuouſly deliver my opinion touching the ſtate of the Lake
of Venice; and after I had diſcourſed with his Honour ſeve
ral times, in the end I had order to ſet down the whole
buſineſſe in writing, who having afterwards read it privately,
the ſaid Signore imparted the ſame, with like privacy, to the
moſt Serene PRINCE, and I received order to repreſent the
ſame to the full Colledge, as accordingly I did in the Moneth
of May, the ſame year, and it was as followeth.
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