THE GRAND CANAL FROM THE STEPS OF S. MARIA DELLA SALUTE
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1914.
"In like manner I say, that had there bin an offer made unto me
before I took my journey to Venice, eyther that foure of the richest
manors of Somerset-shire (wherein I was borne) should be gratis bestowed
upon me if I never saw Venice, or neither of them if I should see it;
although certainly these manors would do me much more good in respect
of a state of livelyhood to live in the world than the sight of Venice, yet
notwithstanding I will ever say while I live, that the sight of Venice and
her resplendent beauty, antiquities, and monuments, hath by many
degrees more contented my minde, and satisfied my desires, than those
foure Lordships could possibly have done."—Thomas Coryat.