A GARDEN IN VENICE 



then its opponent and conqueror, the north-east 

 wind the rude Bora, that, acknowledging no 

 bounds nor master, keeps to the road it has 

 beaten for itself, regardless of the coast lines it 

 severely punishes. Of less importance and weaker 

 mind, Levante, the east wind that follows the 

 course of the sun ; and Garbin, south-west, that 

 leaves the weather as it finds it, in Giudecca 

 language, "Lascia quel che trova." 



It is Scirocco and the Bora that have made 

 the Venice islets and that now rule them. The 

 first brings the moisture, the last turns that 

 moisture into rain. And so we have the apparent 

 contradiction, that has made many a tourist dis- 

 trust his aneroid, of a rising glass with a falling 

 rain. 



The contest between our master winds threw 

 up in past ages a bank here and there, awash with 

 the surface of the tide, to warm into life under 

 the kiss of the summer sun. On this the wind 

 and wave drove and left the soil, the sand, the 

 vegetable matter, borne by the salt tide and the 

 fresh torrents from mainland. Here and there 



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