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THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
The Grand Canal is to Venice what the Strand is to London, the Rue / Saint-Honoré to Paris, and the Alcala to Madrid, -- the principal artery / for the circulation of the whole city. Its form is that of a double S, / reversed, the sweep of which bounds the city around St. Mark's while / the upper point borders upon the isle of Santa-Chiara, and the lower / point at the Custom-House, near the canal of the Giudecca. This S is / cut about the middle by the bridge of the Rialto.