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

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              <s>A
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              CONSIDERATION
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              Upon the
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              DRAINING
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              OF THE
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              Pontine Fenns.
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              <s>BY</s>
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              <s>D. BENEDETTO CASTELLI, Abbot
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              of S. BENEDETTO ALOISIO, and Profeſſor
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              of the
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              Mathematicks
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              to P.
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              Urban
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              VIII. in the
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              Univerſity of
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              ROME.
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              CONSIDERATION
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              III.</s>
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              <s>Amongſt the enterprizes by me eſteemed, if not ab­
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              ſolutely impoſſible, , at leaſt exceeding difficult,
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              one was that famous one of Draining the
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              Pontine
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              Fenns
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              ; and therefore I was thorowly reſolved
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              never to apply my minde thereunto, although
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              by my Patrons I ſhould be commanded to the
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              ſame: accounting that it was an occaſion rather of loſing repu­
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              tation by the miſcarriage of the attempt, than of gaining fame by
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              reducing things to a better paſs then they now are at. </s>
              <s>Yet never­
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              theleſs, having of late years obſerved the place, and ſailed through
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              thoſe Chanels, and thoſe Waters; after I had made ſome reflection
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              thereupon, I thought that the enterprize was not ſo difficult as
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              I had at firſt conceited it to be; and I am the more confirmed in
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              this opinion, upon the inducement of that which I have written </s>
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