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fujbje^g,., Your hours, I,know tjre precious to the republicfc o f
leJjjeL and therefore I..4o natt.pTetsad to engtofiitbem.,* a few
detatched broken minutes are,..fufficient for me.
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v , . j. O f tie tyouicce^ q f the Get.'einA',
Contiguous touthe-hamlefrof ^farebi^a, and three miles diftant
frOni ftie foot o f a hill o f marble, are the four principal
fources o f the 'iiltirui; called'Gettiiia by the prefent inhabitants
j; which fources, t f t e r \ fflorf courfe, unite together at a
placf named VTilS Genttk. Th'e tefritb'i'y through which the riT
yer funs, had in paft tithes the title of: county o f Zafiania, and
depended onits particular petty1, prince. "B u t there never, w a s
auV" city therd called Cettinaj and much lefs is there at1 prefent,,
though named by feveral geographers; and particularly by M.
Bufeh'ing, together with the addition o f a lake that exifts not..
byrogfiiitus called the. ZflpciTiCij o f Cettiria Zenitzeha. 1 The
firft time that I faw the fources of this river,' in company with
the Lord Biihop o f Derry, two o f theiri appeared to me to merit
particular attention. The hills that lie between the mountains
o f Kozjak and Dinara, and furround the fine plains o f Cettina,
riling in height‘as they extend farther; back, afe united at laft to.
matint JSerjfovaz. The exterioriappcatifttce in,feveral places, denoting
the irregularity o f the itratai whereof thefe hills arc com-
pofed, gives ground to fufpedtr that they may have been ruins
o f ahcient mouhtains'.; yet 'I cannot!take upon me to affert this
pdihiyelyi ’though?! db’fetv.ed' them viiith; attention, but a more
particular examination would be nec-eilaty on the heights.
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The fource which we firft vilited is a hundred paces from the
hamlet; and the bafe of the hill forms a femicirdle about it.
The clear fmall lake that lies there, almoft hid by the rocks,
and ihade o f the trees, is about thirty feet diameter. The inhabitants
pretend that its bottom cannot be fathomed ; we threw
into it many white Hones o f various fizes, and quickly loft fight
of them. The water o f this lake has fearcely any vifible motion
; yet-, following the declivity, it iffues with rapidity, and
forms a confiderable ftream below. A prodigious number of
trouts., feme of which weigh twenty five pounds, ¡Hue with
the water, from the interior parts of the mountain, and
many Other, fpecies ,of common river fifti are alfo feen; but
the aperture, that Serves them for a paffage, i,s not acceflible,
nor, on lo o k ing , hprizantally, can it be feen from without.
In order to dilcover it, .one muft ftand on one o f the fteep
extremities o f foe femjcircle, and look down. About fix, feet
below the, fuperficies, o f the lake, a ridge o f marble appears
through the water, in form o f a large irregular arch, which
juts a good way outward. Under this the water has its. vent,
and its vertical motion, w h ich . on the fuperficies appears
■little or nothing, is difcqvered by the inclination that ftones
thrown into it t.ake in finking. The other fource, not far dif-
tant from the hamlet, on theoppofite fide, is of fomewhat larger
extent, and alfo in the form of. a lake girt round, like the
other, by the marble ftrata o f the mountain, Its banks are not
fo frefli and ihady as thpf? o f the firft; they fay it is exceedingly
deep in the t, A Ut^e rjyy- is,:lilce;wife fofmed frpm this
lake after a very (hort courfe, and which would not be incon-
fiderable by itfelf, but becomes large when joined with the
other, and two more ftreams, befides feveral lefler rivulets which
run towards the plain from the fame mountain.
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