Venice herself in her amphibious economy is but a splendid development of Grado. A visit to the latter place will do much to enable one to realize Cassiodorus’s picturesque description of the settlement of the fugitives from Aquileia and Padua on the mud-banks of the Rivus Altus. What Grado now is… … Fig. 124. At last a larger cluster of houses than the rest grouped round a spire-capped campanile appeared on the southern horizon, and was as we rightly con- jectured the patriarchal city to which we were bound. As the tide was high we were able to leave the canals, whose course was marked out by…
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