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NAMES DUCAL PALACE LANDWARD VIEW FROM VENICE
NAMES IN THE PLAN [PPAN] OF DOGES PALACE
audio - for audito
zoja
genola - small church when criminals went to face execution
Marangan - place where -fa legume
Caneva - place where wine was cooled.
Sunday 30th December. I was to-day rambling - or rather running -
among the quiet and melancholy canals which extend between
the Madonna dell ‘Orto and Sa Fosca: - the winter sun
glowing on the deep red brick, and the canal beneath
turned into a chasm of light - divided into sharp squares
of blue and vermilion - as if the houses were standing
on a scarlet carpet - they are lonely and stagnant canals
bordered for the most par[e]t by the dead walls of gardens -
now waste ground - or by patches of dark - mouldy - with
de[d]cayed black gondolas lying keel upmost - sinking into th
putrid and black ground gradually - or by remnant of
palace wall - never finished of which the doves and the
ragle shaft along remains Farther on one comes to detached
grouos of low and filthy houses - with and paths trodden
hard between them - but through their dark alleys I saw
the horizontal brightness of the lagoon sunshine and
on the hard frozen snow made my way down to the shore.
The s ky was all serene white blue; the lagoon as
calm as a mirror
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]