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Show Gakuuldi proposes to direct the Tilier river from ita aiicieut bed, by leading it through a ship canal from tho Tuvtire, above Koine, some eighteen miles, to meet the sea. Byj thid project he hoped to prevent those j fearful inundations which huvo been been sodidastrous to Rome, to irrigate the CauipugLiii, mid, more than all, to muke tlie capital oi Italy a seaport. Ho btlieves, moreover, that many vatuablu antiquities will be discovered in the muddy bed 01 the Tevere. For this purpose he solicits aid from foreign for-eign nations. |