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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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