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its name previously being Messanicus. The mouth 

 nearest to Ravenna forms the large basin called the 

 Harbour of the Santerno ; it was here that Claudius 

 Caesar sailed out into the Adriatic, in what was a 

 vast palace rather than a ship, when celebrating his 

 triumph over Britain. This mouth was formerly 

 called the Eridanus, and by others the Spineticus 

 from the city of Spina that formerly stood near it, 

 and that was beheved on the evidence of its treasures 

 deposited at Uelphi to have been a very powerful 

 place ; it was founded by Diomede. At this point 

 the Po is augmented by the river Santerno from the 

 territory of Cornehus Market. 



The next mouth to this is the Caprasian mouth, 

 then that of Sagis, and then Volane, formerly called 

 Olane ; all of these form the Flavian Canal, which was 

 first made from the Sagis by the Tuscans, thus dis- 

 charffinfj the flow of the river across into the marshes 

 of the Atriani called the Seven Seas, with the famous 

 harbour of the Tuscan to\\Ti of Atria which formerly 

 gave the name of Atriatic to the sea now called the 

 Adriatic. Next come the deep-water mouths of 

 Carbonaria and the Fosses of PhiHstina, called by 

 others Tartarus, all of which originate from the 

 overflow of the Philistina Canal, with the addition 

 of the Adige from the Trentino Alps and of the 

 Bacchighone from the district of Padua. A part of 

 these streams also forms the neighbouring harbour 

 of Brondolo, as Ukewise that of Chioggia is formed 

 by the Brenta and Brentella and the Clodian Canal. 

 With these streams the Po unites and flows through 

 them into the sea, according to most authorities 

 forming between the Alps and the sea-coast the figure 

 of a triangle, hke what is called the Delta formed 



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