worthy o f the golden age, had retired to a country houie,
where, by his example, he endeavoured to reform the awkward
husbandry o f the P r im o r ia n s a t the fame time, attending to
his ftudies with philofophic tranquillity, and enjoying the
■ iweets o f a folitude, which he had rendered agreeable and plea-
fant. Monfignor Kadcich Arch-biihop o f Spalatro, born at Ma-
.carlka, was likewife equally diftinguifhed hy the nobility o f his
family, and by his learning. He publiihed a courfe o f moral
theology in Sclavonian for the ufe o f the clergy officiating in
that language, and who had nothing o f that kind to affift them
before| and left his library, well furniihed with ecclefiaftical
books for the benefit o f his country. Neither ought F. Andrea
Cadcich Mioffich to be omitted among the writers o f Macarfka,
he having publiihed a colledion of national heroick fongs;
though it mull be confeffed that he ffiewed little good tafte 1
the choice, and inferted many things trilling and apocryphal.
The fail about Macarlka produces abundance o f oil and wine,
befides almonds, mulberry trees, honey and fome corn. The
nature o f the ground is light, and gravelly, and does nc* want
moifture, as the other littoral parts o f Dalmatia generally do.
I t is eafy to fee that the exterior fuperficies has been formed by
fmall torrents j and thefe torrents have hollowed their beds in
the fame fubllances that were triturated by them o f old A
rivulet called Vrulak runs through the town, but its water is
not fweet, nor wholefome, though it proceeds from a place
much higher than the level o f the fea. The water of the brook
Budiceviza is therefore made ufe ¡of; it is very pure and M
» I T . ” fr° " the M ^ ■«» <I,e fea
It
It feems, that, notwithftanding the quantity, o f gravel and
mud brought down up.on the coart, by the mountain.waters; the
tea has gained, and continually:gajns groonsd'in.-.thoferpjarts;- dljffi
calm weather a piece o f a wall.is fe»n undieri ■water in tbê -fnoutfb
o f the harbour; and it certainly; was indt built under water in ancient
times: and the rock called St.-Peter’s-rock, which cbVers the
harbour, is continually dncroached upon by the waves,- tho’ the y
beat not with equal force there, 'as op:fomei<»feteferpromontdiiës
along the coaft.. The■contiguous poolrtikewifep ivheffe flaê»w a iters
ftagnated not long-ago, becaufe they had not »..free coiirfe
to the fea, afforded a proof o f the rifing o f the level ; for in dig-
g jng t)^e communication before mentioned,, they found the-re--
mains o f a. magnificent tomb,: and:pieces o f noble columnsjt
and I faw at. Macarikas a'very beautiful med&Fbf Mi ¡Julius; PhU-
lippuSjiin gold, that was found in thefiame canal ; neithçÿ'o f
which certainly were plcaeed originally in a fituation covered
by water.,
Ife r sfJw ja ho .to.oansbnBdB Buouborq rfiliEpeM Juodfi liol s d T
O f the Mountain B i o c o v x ; »r B to c o v o , t$M 4MntétiÛsi Ts/i&+
c.a usicAv
T h e higbeft mountain on all'the coart.pf P r im n e ,.h the Bi-^
ocovd at the bottom o f wKte|tthe town o f JÎ^a>fêa)ie§, Tjjîis.-
mountain appears white at a dmance, and without, m y Trees,;,
fo the names o f Âlbïo,and Adr{o, . w ln ch ït bore o f old,,;are,bpth;.
very fulfâble tô it.. The bare,' rtoney/ anrt, fljeep afpedt of.this^-
uninhabited mountathgj'fexhibits a view ‘ fufRcientlyjugly to M S f
rtiâde art attempt“tb wmt it; It is not 'p o ffibW itja afceftd Vt o,U;
horfeback, and un many pfacfesf. very' difficult to \cUmb on haqds;
and feet. Notwithftanding which, the curiofity to fee the natural
confervatories o f ice,, which, in the burning heat o f Turnmer^