From this pleasant city, we proceeded toward Ferrara,carrying with us a bulletino, or bill of health (customaryin all these parts of Italy, especially in the State ofVenice) and so put ourselves into a boat that was towedwith horses, often interrupted by the sluices (inventionsthere to raise the water for the use of mills, and to fillthe artificial canals) at each of which we stayed tillpassage was made. We went by the Castle Bentivoglio,and, about night arrived at an ugly inn called Mal Albergo,agreeable to its name, whence, after we had supped,we embarked and passed that night through the Fens,where we were so pestered with those flying glow-worms,called Luccioli, that one who had never heard ofthem, would think the country full of sparks of fire.Beating some of them down and applying them to abook, I could read in the dark by the light they afforded.
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