<s>All which Operations might be brought to perfection with <lb/>
150. thou&longs;and Crowns, well and faithfully laid out; which &longs;umm <lb/>
the <emph type="italics"/>Bologne&longs;i<emph.end type="italics"/> will not be unwilling to provide; be&longs;ides that tho&longs;e <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Ferrare&longs;i<emph.end type="italics"/> ought to contribute to it, who &longs;hall partake of the <lb/>
benefit.</s>

 <s>Let me be permitted in this place to propo&longs;e a thing which I <lb/>
have thought of, and which peradventure might occa&longs;ion two <lb/>
benefits at once, although it be not wholly new. </s> <s>It was in the <lb/>
time of <emph type="italics"/>Pope Paul<emph.end type="italics"/> V. propounded by one <emph type="italics"/>Cre&longs;cenzio<emph.end type="italics"/> an Ingi<lb/>
neer, to cut the <emph type="italics"/>Main-Po,<emph.end type="italics"/> above <emph type="italics"/>le Papozze<emph.end type="italics"/>; and having made a <lb/>
&longs;ufficient evacuation to derive the water thereof into the P<emph type="italics"/>o<emph.end type="italics"/> of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Adriano,<emph.end type="italics"/> and &longs;o to procure it to be Navigable, which was not at <lb/>
that time effected, either by rea&longs;on of the oppo&longs;itions of tho&longs;e, <lb/>
who&longs;e po&longs;&longs;e&longs;&longs;ions were to be cut thorow, or by rea&longs;on of the <lb/>
great &longs;um of money that was nece&longs;&longs;ary for the effecting of it: But <lb/>
in viewing tho&longs;e Rivers, we have ob&longs;erved, that the &longs;edge cutting <lb/>
might ea&longs;ily be made below <emph type="italics"/>le Papozze,<emph.end type="italics"/> in digging thorow the <lb/>
Bank called <emph type="italics"/>Santa Maria,<emph.end type="italics"/> & drawing a Trench of the bigne&longs;s that <lb/>
skilful Arti&longs;ts &longs;hall judge meet unto the P<emph type="italics"/>o<emph.end type="italics"/> ^{*} of <emph type="italics"/>Ariano,<emph.end type="italics"/> below the <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg982"></arrow.to.target><lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Secche<emph.end type="italics"/> of the &longs;aid S. <emph type="italics"/>Maria<emph.end type="italics"/>; which as being a work of not <lb/>
above 160. Perches in length, would be fini&longs;hed with onely <lb/>
12000. Crowns.</s>

 <s><margin.target id="marg982"></margin.target>* Of <emph type="italics"/>Adriano.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>Fir&longs;t; it is to be believed, that the waters running that way, <lb/>
would not fail to open that Mouth into the Sea, which at pre<lb/>
&longs;ent is almo&longs;t choakt up by the Shelf of Sand, which the new <lb/>
Mouth of <emph type="italics"/>Ponto Virro<emph.end type="italics"/> hath brought thither; and that it would <lb/>
again bring into u&longs;e the Port <emph type="italics"/>Goro,<emph.end type="italics"/> and its Navigation.</s>

 <s>And haply experience might teach us, that the &longs;uperficies of <lb/>
P<emph type="italics"/>o<emph.end type="italics"/> might come to fall by this a&longs;&longs;wagement of Water, &longs;o that the <lb/>
acce&longs;&longs;ion of <emph type="italics"/>Reno<emph.end type="italics"/> would que&longs;tionle&longs;s make no ri&longs;ing in it: <lb/>
Whereupon, if it &longs;hould &longs;o fall out, tho&longs;e Princes would have <lb/>
no rea&longs;on to complain; who &longs;eem to que&longs;tion, le&longs;t by this new <lb/>
acce&longs;&longs;ion of water into P<emph type="italics"/>o,<emph.end type="italics"/> the Sluices might be endangered. <lb/>
</s> <s>Which I thought not fit to omit to repre&longs;ent to your Lord&longs;hip; <lb/>
not, that I propo&longs;e it to you as a thing ab&longs;olutely certain, but that <lb/>
you might, if you &longs;o plea&longs;ed, lay it before per&longs;ons who&longs;e judge<lb/>
ments are approved in the&longs;e affairs.</s>

 <s>I return now from where I degre&longs;t, and affirm it as indubita<lb/>
ble, that <emph type="italics"/>Reno<emph.end type="italics"/> neither can, nor ought to continue longer where <lb/>
it at this day is; and that it cannot go into any other place but <lb/>
that, whither <emph type="italics"/>Cardinal Capponi<emph.end type="italics"/> de&longs;igned to carry it, and which <lb/>
at pre&longs;ent plea&longs;eth me better than any other; or into <emph type="italics"/>Volana,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
whence it was taken away; the vigilance of Men being able to <lb/>
obviate part of tho&longs;e mi&longs;chiefs, which it may do there.</s>

 <s>But from its Removal, be&longs;ides the alleviation of the harm