A Journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the Years 1817,1818: Containing Remarks Relating to Language, Geography, History, Antiquities, Natural History, Science, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Agriculture, the Mechanical Arts and Manufacturers, Volume 1Archibald Constable and Company, 1820 |
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Page 266 - The water course which conducts the water from a river, either to a field for irrigation, or to A mill, is called gora. In this manner a field will be raised five and a half, and sometimes seven and a half feet in ten years. if the dike is broken down to the bottom, the field will be raised the same height in seven years, but then in this case gravel is also carried in along with the mud. In a field of twentyfive acres...
Page 266 - The water-course which conducts the water from a river, either to a field for irrigation, or to a mill, is called gora. In this manner a field will be raised five and a half, and sometimes seven and a half feet, in ten years. If the dike is broken down to the bottom, the field will be raised the same height in seven years ; but then, in this case, gravel is also carried in along with the mud. In a field of twenty-five acres, 'which had been six years under the process of colmata, in which the dike...
Page 266 - ... year was requisite for its completion. The floods, in this instance, had been much charged with soil. The water which comes off cultivated land completes the process sooner than that which comes off hill and woodlands. Almost the whole of the Val di Chiana has been raised by the process of colmata.
Page 265 - The dike of the rivulet is broken down so as to admit the muddy water of the high floods. The Chiana itself is too powerful a body of water to be used for this purpose ; it is only the streams that flow into the Chiana that are used. This water is allowed to settle and deposit its mud on the field.
Page 517 - The building in which the establishment is situated is large, and contains a collection of enamels drawn into the form of sticks. These are arranged, according to their colours, in an extensive suit of rooms. The number of shades of colour is 17,000. The enamel, consisting of glass mixed with metallic colouring matter, is heated for eight days in a glass-house, each colour in a separate pot. The melted enamel is taken out with an iron spoon, and poured on...
Page 354 - Vicit antecedentes aquarum ductus novissimum impendium operis inchoati a C. Caesare, et peracti a Claudio. . Quippe a lapide quadragesimo ad earn excelsitatem , ut in nmnes Urbis montes levarentur, influxere Curtius atque Caeruleus fontes.
Page 542 - ... densus et pede velato non adeunda palus. stagna recesserunt et aquas sua ripa coercet, siccaque nunc tellus : mos tamen ille manet." 415 reddiderat causam. " valeas, anus optima ! " dixi " quod superest aevi, molle sit omne, tui.
Page 136 - Grace n'a mie soicante ans, n'estoit pas d'oppinion que mal fust que femmes fussent lettrees. Quant a sa belle et bonne fille que il tant ama, qui ot nom Nouvelle, fist apprendre lettres et si avant es loys que, quant il estoit occuppez d'aucun essoine par quoy ne povoit vacquier a lire les leçons a ces escolliers, il envoyoit sa fille en son lieu lire aux escolles en chayere.
Page 542 - Hic quoque lucus erat, juncis et arundine densus, Et pede velato non adeunda palus. Stagna recesserunt, et aquas sua ripa coercet, Siccaque nunc tellus ; mos tamen inde manet.
Page 106 - Illustrative of naval affairs in the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.