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

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              <s>A
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              Relation of the Waters in the Territories
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              of
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              Bologna
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              and
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              Ferrara.
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              BY</s>
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              <s>The Right Honourable and Illuſtrious,
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              Monſig­
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              nore
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              CORSINI, a Native of
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              Juſcany,
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              Su­
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              perintendent of the general DRAINS,
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              and Preſident of
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              Romagna-
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              <s>The
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              Rheno,
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              and other Brooks of
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              Romagna,
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              were by the
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              advice of
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              P. </s>
              <s>Agoſtino Spernazzati
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              the Jeſuite, towards
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              the latter end of the time of
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              Pope Clement
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              VIII. notwith­
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              ſtanding the oppoſition of the
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              Bologneſi,
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              and others concerned
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              therein, diverted from their Chanels, for the more commodious
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              cleanſing of the P
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              o
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              of
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              Ferrara,
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              and of its two Branches of
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              Prima­
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              ro,
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              and
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              Volano
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              ; in order to the introducing the water of the
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              Main-Po
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              into them, to the end that their wonted Torrents being
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              reſtored, they might carry the Muddy-water thence into the Sea,
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              and reſtore to the City the Navigation which was laſt, as is ma­
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              nifeſt by the Brief of the ſaid
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              Pope Clement,
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              directed to the
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              Car­
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              dinal San Clemence,
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              bearing date the 22. of
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              Auguſt,
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              1604.</s>
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              <s>The work of the ſaid cleanſing, and introducing of the ſaid
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              P
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              o,
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              either as being ſuch in it ſelf, or by the contention of the
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              Cardinal Legates
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              then in theſe parts; and the jarrings that hap­
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              ned betwixt them, proved ſo difficult, that after the expence of
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              vaſt ſumms in the ſpace of 21. years, there hath been nothing
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              done, ſave the rendring of it the more difficult to be effected.</s>
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              <s>Interim, the Torrents with their waters, both muddy and
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              clear, have damaged the Grounds lying on the right hand of the
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              P
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              o
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              of
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              Argenta,
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              and the
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              Rheno
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              thoſe on its Banks; of which I
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              will ſpeak in the firſt place, as of that which is of greater impor­
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              tance, and from which the principal cauſe of the miſchiefs that
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              reſult from the reſt doth proceed.
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              * Or Lordſhip.</s>
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              <s>This
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              Rbeno
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              having overflowed the ^{*} Tennency of
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              Sanmartina,
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              in circumference about fourteen miles given it before, and part
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              of that of
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              Cominale
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              given it afterwards, as it were, for a recepta­
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              cle; from whence, having depoſed the matter of its muddineſs,
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              it iſſued clear by the Mouths of
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              Maſi,
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              and of
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              Lievaloro,
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              into
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              the P
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              o
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              of
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              Primaro,
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              and of
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              Volano
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              ; did break down the encom­</s>
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