The last house of all before the gardens is the office of the Harbour Master; the little pavilion at the corner of the gardens belongs to the yacht club called the Bucintoro, whose boats are to be seen moored between here and the Molo, and whose members are, with those of sculling clubs on the Zattere and elsewhere, the only adult Venetians to use their waters for pleasure.

As for the Royal Palace, it is quite unworthy and a blot on the Venetian panorama as seen from the Customs House or S.Giorgio Maggiore, or as one sees it from the little Zattere steamboat as the Riva opens up on rounding the Punta di Dogana.

Amid architecture that is almost or quite magical it is just a common utilitarian facade.

But that it was once better can be seen in one of the Guardis at the National Gallery, No.

2099.
Finally we have Sansovino's mint, now S.Mark's Library, with the steamboat bridge for passengers for the Giudecca and the Zattere in front of it, and then the corner of the matchless Old Library, and the Molo with all its life beneath the columns.
And now that we have completed the voyage of the Grand Canal, each way, let me remind the reader that although the largest palaces were situated there, they are not always the best.