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 locks up the boisterous Sea it self, and makes it tame in the Haven. Its a prodigious work, and able to have puzzel'd any two Kings in Europe to have done it.

At one end of this Mola stands the Pharos upon a little rock, with a Lantern upon it, to give notice, by known signes, what Ships, how many, and from what side they Come: or else to guide their own Ships home safely in the night. At first it was onely a little Fort for to help to bridle Genua, and it was built by Lewis the XII of France.

As for the Town it self of Genua, its most beautiful to behold: many of the houses being painted on the outside, and looking as if they were turned inside out, and had their Arras hangings hung on their outsides. The tops of their houses are made with open Galleries, where the women sit together at work in clusters, and where also they dry their hair in the Sun after they have washed it in a certain wash a purpose for to make it Yellow, a