—with imagin'd speed; Id est, with celerity, like that of imagination.
Unto the tranect,; Probably this word means the tow-boat of the ferry.
Doglioni fixes the erection of these columns in 1172, Sabellico in 1174, the common Venetian Guide-books, a few years later. The Abbate Garaccioli, writes the name of the engineer Starrattoni.