Excerpt from The Sea-Charm of VeniceAltinum, Aquileia, and the other towns bor dering on the lagoon, the Roman nobles, many of whom might be called merchant princes, and their dependants ¿ed to Tor cello, to Rialto, and to other islands where, before the conqueror came, they had estab lished depots for their trading, where the fishermen and boatmen were already in their pay. When the Goths followed the invading track of Attila, the emigration of the Roman inhabitants of the mainland to the lagoon continued year after year, and out of this emigrant ¿ight grew Venice, the Queen of the Sea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.