Excerpt from Venetian Studies Hic vobis, aquatilium avium more, domus est. But no eye noted the first low huts, built Of mud bricks, nor measured those light and shallow boats which stood, stabled like horses, at the door Of every house; no historian traced the internal growth Of these fishing stations; and we have been left to suppose what has Often been stated, that the refugees from the mainland, flying before the frequent foreign occupations, found the islands, where they sought Shelter, deserted mud banks out at sea. This could not have been the case. Venice was not peopled solely by exiles from Aquileia, Oderzo, Concordia, or Padua. Through the Obscurity Of the records which have reached us, we can trace a long-continued struggle raging inside venice, t before a thorough fusion of the original and the immigrant populations could be brought about. There were years Of quarrelling between Malamocco, where the Older race predominated, and Heraclea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.