“ which commanded Anderion, whereby the Illyrians, being ex-
“ pofed on bothfides, thefprt was obliged to capitulate.”* Cliffa
is now in fatS at no great diftance above Salona; built on an
inacceiEble rock, furrounded by cliffs, and hollows, and commanded
by the top o f the mountain. Pliny fpeaks of Mande-
triunt as a place famous for heeds o f arms. Cliffa has been too
ffluqh:i©j::ev«'Jasin the times near to us, and would be fo again,
i f the fcourge ofuwar was felt in Dalmatia, on account o f its,
fituation on a- narrow and important pafs.
. Spon, in his, voyages, tranfcribes an infcription feen by hint
at Trau, in which mention is nrade o f repairs done to the road,,
between' Salo.na and Andctrium.
O f the Country inhabited by, the M o r l a c c h i , between C l i s s a
andSe x sn . ‘The valley s / 'L u z z a n e andconcerning G i p a -
l o v o V r i l o .
Pafling beyond Cliffa, ten or twelve mites within the pro--
vince, we traverfed a country, fometimes h igh , fometimes, low,,
but alm'olt always equally rough, and thinly inhabited. The.?
crags "thci defcent of CozigneBerdo, the itoney
valley 'D.facaniza,. unculdvable, though plain, and the mountain^"
of dirfizd, are trails ’o f horrid defert capable of cooling the
moil lervid travelling naturalift. Ail the the defcent is o f mar-C
ble,t dangerous for horfes, as they'can hardly walk, on its; ‘and
the whole valley is thfaftrous/on account o f the many Iharp rocks,
wbicb form tlfe pavement. ' A few 'tufts of ill'grown trees,' and
many thofns,.frocd which it takes the name, o f Dracamza,^ produce.
* ’ £>ion Cafe. Lib. $$.
t Draca a thorn, and particularly the Paliarus.
■duce a wdrfe effeil, than its native ragged barrenftefs would do,
becaufe they interrupt, and render flill more incommodious the
unpleafing road.
At the foot o f the mountain o f Crifiza lies the beauti’fiil Va'I4'
ley of Dizmo, which affords good pa (lure, and the-foil is not
unfertile} it has about ten miles o f circuit, al together furround-
ed by hills. It is not cultivated, though it might eafily be fo -
but the Morlacchi are very far from underftanding good agriculture,
and indeed they know little o f any kind o f it. From
Dizma, by Xenfki Klanaz, then over mount Mojattka, and at
laff by Cucuza Klanaz, ¡ we defcended into the h ig e fin e plain o f
■Seigti, which-is .watered by the THurmt now,rCalled Ceuina ‘ a
trail o f country of which I ill all have occafion to fpeak again,
when I give an account o f the head, courle, and mouth o f this
river; from which, in former times, the diftridh o f Cettina took
its name.
It is no rare thing, in the interior part o f the country inhabi*
ted by the Morlacchi, to find hills, lakes, and territories, which
preferve, in their name, the memory o f fome fignal a ¿lion. O f
this number is the road called Xenjki KJanaz,* and the mountain
Mojanka. There ish fong, traditionally preferved among
the Morlacchi o f thofe part§, that relates the doleful cafe o f one,
whofe miilrefs was qarried away by force, and was called Anka.
He fought her over all the mountains in the night time'," calling
aloud Maja Anka, i. e. my A n k a ,, whence the mountain .took
the name it (till bears; and feveral places, in that neighbour*
hood, have names relative to different circumftances‘o f : the
ftory.
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* dCenJki Klanaz, that is, the narrow pafs i f the woman.