Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . VENICE. 75 evening light, or when the twilight throws its veil around Santa Maria della Salute. TheLagoons open out widely before us, often crested with foaming waves ; and the figures wemeet slowly pacing the broad alley, have frequently something of the stateliness of theold Nobili. In all Venice there is not a single horse. Only here on a soft road runningparallel with the main path, a rider is occasionally seen, and the street boys leave off theirgames to stare at the wonderful animal. The Gardini Pubblici are situated at the extremepoint of Venice, on t
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . VENICE. 75 evening light, or when the twilight throws its veil around Santa Maria della Salute. TheLagoons open out widely before us, often crested with foaming waves ; and the figures wemeet slowly pacing the broad alley, have frequently something of the stateliness of theold Nobili. In all Venice there is not a single horse. Only here on a soft road runningparallel with the main path, a rider is occasionally seen, and the street boys leave off theirgames to stare at the wonderful animal. The Gardini Pubblici are situated at the extremepoint of Venice, on that sharp promontory which stretches out into the Lagoons. If youproceed beyond this point in a boat, you reach the Lido, a long stretch of sandy shore whichdivides the Lagoons from the open sea ; and beyond that again are the Murazzi/ the. A GONDOLA. tremendous sea-walls which protect the town against the Adriatic. From hence isobtained the best idea of the extraordinary position of Venice ; how that shallow floodwhich goes by the name of Lagnna morta and Lagnna viva, stretches between the sea andthe dry land, and how from its surface arose the most marvellous city in the world. TheLagoon is divided from the moving sea, as well as from the solid land, by sand-dunes, likegigantic dams. But there are great portals opened seawards by which ships can reach thefree Adriatic. Poito di Lido, Malamocco, Porto dei tre Porti are the names of these threeoutlets. The Lagoons cover a superficies of more than a hundred and seventy squaremiles; the ?mirazzi alone which are erected to ward off the sea close to Palestrina, areover eighteen thousand feet long, and more than forty feet thick, and thirty feet high. At Porto di Lido the soft sands are covered with stunted shrubs, and little tremblinggrasses grow close to the edge of the sea
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