Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . but that I found it much finer too than I expected, by fomeaccounts I had heard of it. It is fituated upon a fair and fer-tile plain, well waterd with abundance of rivulets, which havebeen brought thither with a good deal of art and contrivance,as well as expence. In fome places as we came along, we fawthem brought one over another, where the grounds lay fo thatthe currents mull crofs j fo that one brook ran over the bridge,while another ran under it. By the help of thefe currents theylay
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . but that I found it much finer too than I expected, by fomeaccounts I had heard of it. It is fituated upon a fair and fer-tile plain, well waterd with abundance of rivulets, which havebeen brought thither with a good deal of art and contrivance,as well as expence. In fome places as we came along, we fawthem brought one over another, where the grounds lay fo thatthe currents mull crofs j fo that one brook ran over the bridge,while another ran under it. By the help of thefe currents theylay their rice-grounds under water, which that grain requires :it grows in great quantities about fix or {even miles from thecity. I fuppofe they have induftrioufly avoided planting itnearer the city ; for, tho the grain be wholefome, the air whereit grows is not efteemd fo, by reafon of the ftagnated vines about Milan are made to grow much in the form ofa hay-rack for a farm yard, raifed about four or five foot fromthe ground j and with thefe the fields in fome parts are over-fpread. 459 I ¥. From 460 MILAN. From the top of the dome we had a full view of the greatplain around the city; the neareft hill we faw, they told us,was above thirty miles off: others, to which the plain extendsitfelf, are vaftly further. The city is almoft circular, and hasbeen fortified all round, having a large caftle on one fide. Thofo large a city, it has not what one can properly call a river;but it is waterd by two currents, to each of which they givethe name of Navile,- one of them furrounds the outfide, theother runs concentrical, within the town. As thefe were broughtthither by art, fo they are not very large, but, in the mannerthey are difposd, they do very well anfwer the conveniency ofthe place, efpecially that within the town. The great church, and the chief place of the tradefmen,[Piazza de Mercanti] are much about the centre of the city ;as if at the placing them they had in view
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