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XII. Architectural Designs: 747.
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XII. Architectural Designs: 747.

747.

The main underground channel does not receive turbid water, but that water runs in the ditches outside the town with four mills at the entrance and four at the outlet; and this may be done by damming the water above Romorantin.

[11]There should be fountains made in each piazza[13].

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Footnotes
  1. 31:358

    : In the original this text comes immediately after the passage given as No. 744. The remainder of the writing on the same page refers to the construction of canals and is given later, in the "Topographical Notes".

    Lines 1-11 are written to the right of the plan lines 11-13 underneath it. J. P. R.

  2. 31:359

    10: Romolontino is Romorantin, South of Orleans in France.

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