cour&longs;e of the Waters upwards very lea&longs;urely, per&longs;wadeth me <lb/>
more readily to believe that <emph type="italics"/>Sig. </s> <s>Bartolotti<emph.end type="italics"/> knoweth very well, <lb/>
that the Mouth of <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> let into <emph type="italics"/>Serchio<emph.end type="italics"/> is hurtful: for <lb/>
by this he acknowledgeth that the Mouth towards the Sea doth <lb/>
in &longs;uch &longs;ort drain the Countrey of the Waters, as that they be<lb/>
come very low; and therefore upon every little <emph type="italics"/>impetus<emph.end type="italics"/> the wa<lb/>
ters turn their cour&longs;e: And from the motions, being exceeding <lb/>
&longs;low, is inferred, that the abundance of Sea-water that com<lb/>
eth into <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto,<emph.end type="italics"/> is &longs;o much as is believed, and as <emph type="italics"/>Sig. </s> <s>Bat<lb/>
tolotti<emph.end type="italics"/> affirmeth.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>9. After that <emph type="italics"/>Sig. </s> <s>Bartolotti<emph.end type="italics"/> hath &longs;aid what he promi&longs;eth a<lb/>
bove, namely, that when the Windes blowing &longs;trongly do &longs;top <lb/>
up <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto,<emph.end type="italics"/> and not onely retard but turn the cour&longs;e up<lb/>
wards, the time being Rainy, and the Mouth of <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;hut <lb/>
up, the Waves of the Sea pa&longs;&longs;e over the Bank of <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/>; at <lb/>
that time, &longs;aith <emph type="italics"/>Signore Bartolotti,<emph.end type="italics"/> the Champain &longs;hall know the <lb/>
benefit of <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> di&longs;charged into <emph type="italics"/>Serchio,<emph.end type="italics"/> and the mouth A <lb/>
&longs;hall &longs;tand alwayes open; and <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> may alwayes con<lb/>
&longs;tantly run out, as al&longs;o the Rains and Rain-waters, although the <lb/>
hurtful Tempe&longs;t &longs;hould la&longs;t many dayes, &c. </s> <s>And I reply, that <lb/>
all the Art con&longs;i&longs;ts in this; for the benefit of tho&longs;e Fields doth <lb/>
not depend on, or con&longs;i&longs;t in &longs;aying, that <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> is alwayes <lb/>
open, and <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> draineth continually; But all the bu&longs;i<lb/>
ne&longs;&longs;e of profit lyeth and con&longs;i&longs;teth in maintaining the Waters <lb/>
low in tho&longs;e Plaines, and tho&longs;e Ditches, which &longs;hall never be ef<lb/>
fected whil&longs;t the World &longs;tands, if you let <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto<emph.end type="italics"/> into <emph type="italics"/>Ser<lb/>
chio<emph.end type="italics"/>; but yet it may, by opening the mouth into the Sea: and <lb/>
&longs;o much rea&longs;on and nature proveth, and (which importeth) Ex<lb/>
perience confirmeth.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>10. In the tenth place I come to con&longs;ider the an&longs;wer that <lb/>
was made to another Propo&longs;ition in the Letter which I writ to <lb/>
Father <emph type="italics"/>France&longs;co,<emph.end type="italics"/> which prudently of it &longs;elf alone might &longs;erve <lb/>
to clear this whole bu&longs;ine&longs;&longs;e. </s> <s>I &longs;aid in my Letter, That great <lb/>
account is to be made of every &longs;mall ri&longs;ing and ebbing of the <lb/>
Waters neer to the Sea in <emph type="italics"/>Fiume morto,<emph.end type="italics"/> for that the&longs;e ri&longs;ings and <lb/>
fallings, although that they be &longs;mall neer to the Sea-&longs;ide, yet ne<lb/>
verthele&longs;&longs;e, they operate and are accompanied by notable ri&longs;ings <lb/>
and fallings within Land, and far from the Sea-&longs;ide, and I have <lb/>
declared by an example of <emph type="italics"/>Arno,<emph.end type="italics"/> in which a Land-flood falling, <lb/>
that made it increa&longs;e above its ordinary height within <emph type="italics"/>Pi&longs;a<emph.end type="italics"/> &longs;ix or <lb/>
&longs;even Braces, that this height of the &longs;ame Flood becometh &longs;till <lb/>
le&longs;&longs;er, the neerer we approach to the Sea-coa&longs;ts. </s> <s>Nor &longs;hall the <lb/>
&longs;aid River be rai&longs;ed hardly half a Brace; whereupon it nece&longs;&longs;<lb/>
rily followeth, that if I &longs;hould return to the Sea-&longs;ide, and not <lb/>
knowing any think of that which happeneth at <emph type="italics"/>Pi&longs;a,<emph.end type="italics"/> and &longs;eeing