{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1071.htm","path":"aor/dv/1071.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1071.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nAt Bordeaux in Gascony the sea rises about 40 braccia before its ebb, and the river there is filled with salt water for more than a hundred and fifty miles; and the vessels which are repaired there rest high and dry on a high hill above the sea at low tide. 588\n250:588 2: This is obviously an exaggeration founded on inaccurate information. Half of 150 miles would be nearer the mark.","title":"Vol. II: XVII. Topographical Notes: 1071.","type":"page"}