A
CONSIDERATION
Upon the
DRAINING
Of the Territories of
Bologna, Ferrara,
AND
Romagna.
CONSIDERATION
Upon the
DRAINING
Of the Territories of
Bologna, Ferrara,
AND
Romagna.
BY
D. BENEDETTO CASTELLI, Abbot
of S. BENEDETTO ALOISIO, Mathematician
to P. Vrban VIII. and Profeſſor in the
Univerſity of ROME.
D. BENEDETTO CASTELLI, Abbot
of S. BENEDETTO ALOISIO, Mathematician
to P. Vrban VIII. and Profeſſor in the
Univerſity of ROME.
The weghty buſineſſe of the Draining of
the Territories of Bologna, Ferrara,
and Romagna having been punctually
handled and declared in writing from
the excellent memory of the Right Ho
nourable and Noble Monſignore Corſini,
who was heretofore Deputed Commiſ
ſary General, and Viſitor of thoſe Wa
ters; I am not able to make ſuch ano
ther Diſcourſe upon the ſame Subject, but will only ſay ſome
what for farther confirmation of that which I have ſaid in this
Book upon the Lake of Venice, upon the Pontine Fens, and up
on the Draining of thoſe Plains of Piſa, lying between the Ri
vers Arno and Serchio; whereby it is manifeſt, that in all the
the Territories of Bologna, Ferrara,
and Romagna having been punctually
handled and declared in writing from
the excellent memory of the Right Ho
nourable and Noble Monſignore Corſini,
who was heretofore Deputed Commiſ
ſary General, and Viſitor of thoſe Wa
ters; I am not able to make ſuch ano
ther Diſcourſe upon the ſame Subject, but will only ſay ſome
what for farther confirmation of that which I have ſaid in this
Book upon the Lake of Venice, upon the Pontine Fens, and up
on the Draining of thoſe Plains of Piſa, lying between the Ri
vers Arno and Serchio; whereby it is manifeſt, that in all the