The next day the Canal of Lombardy was similarly blocked; and thus, on the fourth day after leaving Venice, Pisani had accomplished his object, and had shut out the Genoese galleys from the sea.
But the work had been terrible, and the losses great.

The soldiers were on half rations.

The cold was piercing.

They were engaged night and day with the enemy, and were continually wet through, and the labour was tremendous.
A fort had already been begun on the southern shore of the port of Brondolo, facing the convent, which Doria had transformed into a citadel.

The new work was christened the Lova, and the heaviest guns in the Venetian arsenal were planted there.