Word: canals
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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PRINCETON has formed a new boating association, and they are going at once to work. They have to row on the canal...
...could see down the Canal, the successive lines of light, rising from the water's edge to the top of the palaces, pointed out their cornices and windows. In the city a single light from the top of the Campanile seemed like a rising star, while above it all the dim light reflected from the water against the sky seemed like a halo...
...gondola carries me down the Canal in silence, only broken by the cry of some gondolier, shooting out from the shadow into the Canal. He looks like some Charon in the gloomy light of the candles looming through the mist. Soon the hum of many voices breaks on me, and, turning a bend, I come on the Rialto, which is one mass of fire...
...houses on each side are covered with lights and transparencies, bearing the arms of the house of Savoy and the royal monogram? The bridge itself is ablaze with the national colors, red, green, and white. A mass of people on the bridge, on the embankment, and on the Canal itself, surge to and fro; some shouting for the King, some for Garibaldi, the head of the Liberals...
Leaving this noisy tumult, I wedge my way through the boats, which block up the Canal. Gradually the hum of voices subsides. I pass the depot, where a band is playing the national air, and float out upon the lagoon...