Dauphin , i n Dauphine, and Saluzzo, in Piedmont, being almoft central
between- them; ■' at the .diftanceiof [about (eighteen 'Englifh 'milea-
from each.- Thus defcending from the centre o fth e weftern Alps, the
Po paffes to the N. E. of Salu-zzo,i by Carignan, to Turin ; deceiving
even in this flioit fpace many rivers, ;as:the Varrita, Maira, and G rana
from the fouih ; rand from the N. the Felice, Sagon, and others. Moft,
of tbefe ftreams having had a longer courfe than what is called that of
the Po, the Maira, for inftance, might perhaps be m ore juftly regarded'
as the principal river: nay the Tanaro, which flows into the Po fome-
miles below Alexandria, might perhaps claim, in the riv e r, Stura,,
a more remote fource than the Po itfelf. After leaving-the walls of
Turin, the Po ./receives innumerable rivers and rivulets from the Alps-
in . the N. and the Apennines in the S. Among the former may be-
named the Daria, the Tefino, th e Adda, the Oglio,the Minc io: to the
eaft of which the Adige, an independent dream, defcends from the-
Alps of Tyrol, and r e f l a g tp blend: Ids waters with th e ! Po pUrlnes;
bis ccrarfeto the gulph of Venice. From the f i^ h .th e firft deceive^
the copious Alpine river Tanaro, itfelf (welled by tfc^e
and other dreams : the other fout-hern rivers .are of far lefs gp^feq.p;eQp.ei
but among them may be named the Trebbia* the p y e r l^Pajrma* ,apdl
the Baraar©, which, joins the P© a t SteHato; on -the' weftern frontier of
the former territory of Ferrara. The eo u ffe c f theftFo may be comparatively
eftimated a t about 300 Britifh miles,; fo .that when Bufching
pronounces it the fecond river in Europe, after the Danube, he mud.
have forgotten the Rhine, the Elbe, the Oder, (the Viftula,. not to-
mention. the Loire of France, the Tajo of Spain., and other noble-
ftreams ! The numerous: tributary riv e ts,. from the Alps and Apennines,
bring down fo much fand and gravel that the bed :of the Pohas in-
modern times been considerably railed, fo that in many places banks of
thirty feet in-height are necefiary to preferve the country fr,om inundation.
Hence hydraulics have been m uch ftudied in the north of Italy;,
and the numerous canals of irrigation delight and inftruft the traveller-
Perhaps by deepening the_ chief eft-uary, and bed . of the fiver, equal,
fervice might have been rendered to- commerce. l a the middle .ages-.
maritime.
^tooksfiaceHon the Pc^ betweem Venice and fome of
the inland po'wers. It is remarkable that, from Cremona to the fea,
main ftream of fhe Eo; and the
•cafe :w&s thb feme in anCient times; an exception to the fuppofition
*haffe¥e#y river-has’fome^grand cky nerfr its!eftuary.*
- The Other riv e rs'-o f tfuFU b rih of Itfty, as h b e Adige, the Bretita; th e
Tiavi, an d 'th eT a g li'am e n tO ,- mikb'npw r a th e r be regarded:,as Auftrian
ftreams; I
I-n the ieeKCre fefokppCars: the Afno, whieh rifes in the Apennines, Am»,
and flows byFlofelrcehyiid'Pifa into- thfe'gulph oDGenoa- The Tiber, T ib e r ,
'ans irnahortbl ftre&m, is b y fan-the moft confidterabte in the middle, or
ierath of Italy, irifing se a r the fource-of the Arno, S. E . o f St. Marino,
and paffing by 'Perugia,■ and R om e /to -'th e Mediterranean, which it
joins -rifter a .oourfetiof iaboutrigao Britifh -miles. The Tiber is faid to
:receive.'abpiit forty-two riversflbf jporents; ..maaysAf ihetn celebrated ia
Roman hiftory '; as is the Rubicon, a diminutive; ftream, now the -
Fiumefinq, w h i^ erBers ; the Adriatic. About eight Britifh t ihifes- fto-the
;N. ; o f Rimini. In this e e ^ a l i ipart o f Balyrma-ny, fmall ftreams flow
.from bei^iSfo the.; Mediterranean; and Adriatic ; but after
s#® r i v e r b e m e n t i o n e d % 4 i y k i ° %
whofe ^our-fe 'deferves the notice qfgfrneral -geography. |
Italy, beautiful lakes, particularly .jin; ; the f^patthesm
divifioh. The Lago, Maggiote,. Greater Lake, or lake of Locarno, is Locarm*.
about twenty-feven Britifli miles in length, b y three of medial breadth ;
and the (bores abound with Alpine beauties,. receiving .-the waters of
fome o,ther lakes, among which mure be mentioned that of Lugano on
the eaft. j This lake formerly adjoined to the Mila-nefe territory, and
contains the, beautiful Boromean iUe's, celebrated by many travellers.
Still further to the eaft is the'lake of Como, which is"jpined by that of
•Lefcco.: the lake of Como is about thirty-two'Britifh miles in lengthy
but t-he medial breadth not above two and a half. Yet further fo the-
eaft is .the Email lake , of I£eot, which is followed by thenoble Lago di
* (To the 1N ..i.of.Fcrrara..the Ppjeems as’broad,-as :the .Rhine at Dufieldprf, ..-Stolberg, ii. 5.761:
but is pi-obably not above ha lf as deep. | g j . t Smith, ii. 360,-; .compatesthe'Jio; near.Ferrara,, to.
the Macfe at Rotterdam,: and fays it is nearly as wide.
G a r d a '*