avelled, and Venice herself in her amphibiouseconomy is but a splendid development of Grado.A visit to the latter place will do much to enableone to realize Cassiodoruss picturesque descriptionof the settlement of the fugitives from Aquileiaand Padua on the mud-banks of the Kivus Altus.What Grado… … Fig. 124. At last a larger cluster of houses than the restgrouped round a spire-capped campanile appearedon the southern horizon, and was as we rightly con-jectured the patriarchal city to which we werebound. As the tide was high we were able to leavethe canals, whose course was marked out by…
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