The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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commit his observations to paper, in the MS. L.  
By the side of this text we find, in the original, a very indistinct  
sketch, perhaps a plan of a position. Instead of this drawing I have  
here inserted a much clearer sketch of a position from the same MS.,  
L. 82b and 83a. They are the only drawings of landscape, it may be  
noted, which occur at all in that MS.]  
Alessandria in Piedmont (1055. 1056).  
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055.  
At Candia in Lombardy, near Alessandria della Paglia, in making a  
well for Messer Gualtieri [Footnote 2: Messer Gualtieri, the same  
probably as is mentioned in Nos. 672 and 1344.] of Candia, the  
skeleton of a very large boat was found about 10 braccia  
underground; and as the timber was black and fine, it seemed good to  
the said Messer Gualtieri to have the mouth of the well lengthened  
in such a way as that the ends of the boat should be uncovered.  
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056.  
At Alessandria della Paglia in Lombardy there are no stones for  
making lime of, but such as are mixed up with an infinite variety of  
things native to the sea, which is now more than 200 miles away.  
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