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[Footnote: Lines 6-18 are partly reproduced in the facsimile on p.
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54, and the whole of lines 19-25.
The following names are written along the rivers on the larger
sketch, era f (the Loire) scier f (the Cher) three times. Pote
Sodro (bridge of the Soudre). Villa francha (Villefranche)
banco (sandbank) Sodro (Soudre). The circle below shows the
position of Romorantin. The words 'orologio del sole' written
below do not belong to the map of the rivers. The following names
are written by the side of the smaller sketch-map:--tors (Tours),
Abosa (Amboise) bres--for Bles (Blois) mo rica (Montrichard).
Lione (Lyons). This map was also published in the 'Saggio'
(
Milano, 1872) Pl. XXII, and the editors remark: Forse la linia
retta che va da Amboise a Romorantin segna l'andamento proposto d'un
Canale, che poi rembra prolungarsi in giu fin dove sta scritto
Lione.
M. Ravaisson has enlarged on this idea in the Gazette des Beaux Arts
(
1881 p. 530): Les traces de Leonard permettent d'entrevoir que le
canal commencant soit aupres de Tours, soit aupres de Blois et
passant par Romorantin, avec port d'embarquement a Villefranche,
devait, au dela de Bourges, traverser l'Allier au-dessous des
affluents de la Dore et de la Sioule, aller par Moulins jusqu' a
Digoin; enfin, sur l'autre rive de la Loire, depasser les monts du
Charolais et rejoindre la Saone aupres de Macon. It seems to me
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