[M.86L]                                                               [M.86]	Truths of Venice	86
                                                                      
                                                                      Chap.		The Verities of Venice.
                                                                      		There is no town in italy of which parts and gr detached groups
                                                                      		of building are so perfect as some in Venice: but there is also
                                                                      		no one, which owes so much to the imagination -
                                                                      		Between the Isola di San Giorgio and that of the Guidecca crossing
                                                                      		the strong tide, divided on the quay of San Giorgio - curdles
                                                                      		in smooth and shaking eddies into a triangular space where
                                                                      		the water seems flowing all ways at once - and sweeping
                                                                      		from a centre as it does from the wall of the [gap] of Spezia
                                                                      		- Then a steady stream forms itself which runs out seaward
                                                                      		between two banks of grey slime - smooth & level and lying the one
                                                                      		the one extending far away to the south:  the other to the foot of
                                                                      		the dead wall which surrounds the gardens of San Giorgio
                                                                      		Dead it is - for through its whole length - not so much
                                                                      		as a water door to b or a groined angle to break its perfect
                                                                      		dulness.  The campanile and dome are seen over it as the gondola
                                                                      		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 Giudecca - and going by the back of the larger is land -
                                                                      		the view is still more melancholy.

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