[M.119L]                                                              [M.119]	Names. Ducal Palace. Landward view from Venice.	119
                                                                      
                                                                      Names in the plan of Doge's palace
                                                                      		andio - for andito
                                                                      		zoja 
                                                                      		genola - small church where criminals went before execution
                                                                      		Marangon - place where -fa legume
                                                                      		Caneva - place where wine was cooled.
                                                                      Sunday 30th December.  I was today rambling - or rather
                                                                      		running - among the quiet and melancholy canals which
                                                                      		extend between the Madonna dell‘ Orto and Sta 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 part by the
                                                                      		dead walls of gardens - now waste ground - or by patches
                                                                      		of dark - mouldy   - with decayed black gondolas lying
                                                                      		keel upmost - sinking into this putrid & black ground
                                                                      		gradually - or by remnant of palace wall - never finished
                                                                      		of which the doors and the angle shafts along remain.  Farther
                                                                      		on one comes to detached groups of low & filthy houses - with
                                                                      		mud paths trodden hard between them - but through their
                                                                      		dark alleys I saw the horizontal brightness of the lagoon sunshine
                                                                      		and over the hard frozen snow made my way down to the shore.
                                                                      		The sky was all serene white blue: the lagoon as calm as a mirror

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