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117 86
TRUTHS OF VENICE
Chap. The Verities of Venice.
There is no town in italy of which parts and detached
groups of building are so perfect as some in Venice:
but there is also no one, which owes so much to the imagin
ation.
Between the Isola di San Grogio and that of the Guidica
the strong tide, divided on the quay of San Grogio -
curdles in smooth and shaking eddies into a triangular spa
space where the water seems flowing all ways at once -
and sweeping from a centre as it does from the wall of
the of Spezia - Then a steady stream forms
itself which runs out seaweed between two banks of grey
slime - smooth and level the one the one extending far
away to the south: the other to the foot of the cloud wall
which surrounds the gardens of San Grogio Dead it is -
for through it whole length - not so much as a water
door or a groined angle to break its perfect dulness.
The campanile and dome are seen over it as the gondala
glides with the tide towards the Lido - but the wall
itself is unbroken - and forms the principal object in
the view of Venice in this direction: Turning to the
right after passing the Gundecca - and going by the back of
the larger is land - the view is still more melancholy
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