The fifliing is managed there, in the fame flovenfy manner as at
Slofella, by the inhabitants o f the neighbouring villages. The
fhell fifh o f the lake o f Morigne, are almoft entirely, the fame as
thofe in the lagunes o f Venice, and Comacchio,. and i f the fea
carries thither the feeds o f other fpecies that love deep water,,
they do not propagate,- but. return to a more fuitable fituation.—
Among the microfcopic ihells o f Morigne, befides a variety o f
Cornua ammonis, and other minute bodies; common to almoft.
all fandy and muddy bottoms o f the Adriatick, there are-many.
Porptes, like thofe foffiL ones fometimes found in your Bolog-
nefe brooks,, and which have been waihed down from, the higher-'
hills. The ehafms- o f Brendola hill in the Vicentine contain:
alfo great quantities.. Their bulk, originally does not exceed that
o f half a grain o f millet. Examined by the microfcope, they
appear wholly compofed o f fmall lines, or divifions, very irregularly
interfered, and forming a great number of cells for the
Polypes fabricators and inhabitants o f the little, city.. El. V II..
dig. io.. 1 1 .
T h e lands adjacent to the lake,,are o f the fame quality as thofe
around Zablachie, and both thefe make a part o f what is called-,
the CampO' d’abbajfo, which is by. far the moft. fertile fpot in the
territory o f Sibenico. The common Dalmatian marble,, and a:
kind of. lenticular foft flone, prevail in the more elevated parts .
o f this, trad o f country, near the fea. Advancing nearer the,
bottoms o f the high mountains,, I found them compofed oft con*
creted clay, like thoie o f the coaft near Zara.,
O f S imoskoi and R ogosniza.
The weather did not permit me to land at the place now called
old Sibenico, where, perhaps, I ihould have found feme
monumonument
o f the good old times; though Peutinger's table
does not place any ancient fettlement in that neighbourhood.
The laft maritime places,, that I vifited under the jurifdiction
of Sibenico, were the two- fmall iilands Simojkoi and Rogofniza.-
The higheft parts o f Simofkoi are o f common Dalmatian marble,,
and, towards the bottom o f the eminences, the ftone is lefs-
rough, and quite full of’ marine-exotic bodies, which may be
moftly reduced- under, the genus of Ortboceratites, though diftin--
guiftiable by particular articulations. T he fubftance o f fome o f
thefe bodies is remarkably porous, notwithftanding the change
they have undergone , and. innumerable little cells may be dif-
tinguiihed, by the help o f an ordinary glafs. Obferve at .fig. 12,
one of the moft curious fpecimens; it is now in England, in the
precious eolleition o f the Earl o f B u t e , the noble Mecsenas o f
natural hiftory in that kingdom; The following fig. 13. was-
carefully drawn by- Count Faufto Dragenich Veranzio, from a
fpecimen in my poiTeilion, which came from the Ifo-ie coronate:
The interior part a, a, minutely, ftriated,. is the nucleus o f the
Ortboceratites, compofed o f a very bright fpato-dalcareous cry-
ftalifation; and,. on breaking t h nuclei, the veftiges o f con-
camerations, divided in two,- by a partition, are often found.
The outer part b, b, is alfo ftriated longitudinally, like an im-
perfedt Amiantus, and is the ancient fpoil o f the animal, converted
into a lefs white, and lefs bright fpar, though very clofe.
The fubftance c, c, which enclofes this petrifadtion, and covers
its exterior lineaments,. is a hard whitiih common ftone. It
would be tedious to defcribe the variety of this fpecies o f petri -
fadtion, which -is met with all along the coafts o f Dalmatia,
though Donati could hardly find any diftinguilhable foflils there.
I.will only add one more (fig. 14) which reprefents a piece .oft
lapideous