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6. Neither are later and nearer Exp^irnents wanting. Of old time Ravenna st°°.upon the brink of the Sea-fhore, which lSnow by reason of the landing up the Shallopfar distant from it. The Sea washed the Waj' Sof Padua , which is now Twenty five hbremote therefrom. In fine* our Rhene of B?logna, though it be but a small Torrent, y ctin a few Years since it hath been by antificial Cut let into the Po, it hath so filled *,up, and obstructed its Channel with Sa^and Mud, that it hath much endamagedneighbouring Fidds. Seeing then by th e ‘ evarious aggerations of Sand and Silt, the#*is daily cut short, and driven back, and ltSBasin or Acceptable straitned, and the b^'torn thereof railed, it will necessarily co# 6to pass in time, that it will begin to oV c fflow; as now it happens in many places,example, in the Baltkk , Danick, and HoltwShores, in which places they are forced ^erect and maintain long and highand Fences against the Inundations of £ ‘ 1<:Sea.

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