Grand Canal

The Buildings are generally lofty and beautiful eſpecially on the Grand Canal, over which the Bridge called Rialto exceeds all the reſt, is built of white Marble, and conſiſts of one Arch 95 foot long and 24 high.

The Grand Canal, in Chinese Yun-ho, or ‘the Transit river,’ is of much more importance to the inland trade than either of the two great rivers of China.