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                                                                      				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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