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| | The Grand Canal Of Venice |
 | | The Rialto, which is the finest bridge in Venice, has a very grandiose and monumental appearance : it spans the canal with a single arch of an elegant and bold curve. |
 | | On the column to the right, the Lion of St. Mark in bronze, with outspread wings, claw on his Gospel, and with scowling face turns his tail on St. Theodore's crocodile with the most sour and sullen air that can be expressed by a heraldic animal. |
 | | Near the Zecca is the mouth of the Grand Canal and the front of the Custom House, which, with the public gardens, forms the two ends of this panoramic arc over which Venice extends, like a marine Venus drying on the shore the pearls salted by their natal element. |
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