Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 368
e directly at thewaters edge, and at a couple of yards distancefrom their door-ways is a row of gayly painted posts,driven into the bottom of the canal. They areintended to protect the gondolas lying at the broadstone steps from being run into by passing craft.The posts in front of each house are… … THE RIALTO. now see rising up on each side, were almost allbuilt in the Middle Ages, and many of them lookold and a little shabby, but among them are somevery beautiful and peculiar specimens of archi-tecture, their fronts being covered with artistic andgraceful ornamentation ; many of the windows,…
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