tflis new ' grò find,!t an d 'g o e s on corroding it fo much the
mforé'èaÏH'ÿ %s' the partSiarëtiotifirongly conneéted together. - A nd
aïclow ‘twlfefr nothing I s to be fèen in 'théfë places, where the
wffiffi'ifibré 'tirés p e rp en d icu la r bu t mountain gravel. T h e pro-
ibotitò'n&, --of'^h ich tha/è are feveral that Rretch out' from the
nfàinlaiid Into the feav'infféad of'b e in g augmented o r fuppdrted,
3ls‘Would b e 'th é 'c à fé i f thè* fea ias-forh'e perhaps may th in k )'c a r ried
itVbWfr g fav e l TO* thè'ihore,3 are Üâilÿ diminifhing in extent,
and becoming rûckS ühdèh Mte fftjh ifa tfed from 1 the mountain. "
SI T o thefp-general dbfervatioris I fhall add two particular ones
•whioh I took notice-ó f On thè fpot. -One was függefled to me
hy-aH-infcriprieri eut on a rock onthe-fho’re -of Xwogbjbhfé, in
which-metïtibit is mhdenot only df-aiffPtìntain that now does
not exiil; but alfo o f a trail o f ground which it watered. - At
prefent the-feS b'eats-with violence '-agaihfl-' thè! rock whete- the
infcription ilands, and has already, by the reiterated percuilion
o f the littoral gravely done great damage to that valuable monu-
niènÇ'whïchh'i'hbw'h’ citâil'iïl'ÎbÎc, thh girderi/ or
at leafl thé walk that led to iheTèhhtâiW,' • all which, according
W the learned Signor Giroïamb’iZa^èttï, belòngéd to the Em-
pèrour Liéïnikri, ar.è all funk, together ’tèith thé fountain, Under
"the elevated ieai
The rivet- Nârenta, -and thè plainoverflowedbyit, in which
are’-burre'd the jremainsso f Ù\t emporium Narona, ''-'fiiriìiilied ine
with ihfeJothermbfemtion,- 'which is- but {ot?’ applicable;'to!bur
nïaghbbtfrh&'odîwhèie'Àdria ahd RàiUrihûm'naëfwènt thè fame
ffk .- r- The ‘waters-6F thè b re n ta / - fc tà t ìè d in' their çbdrfe by
f^ è p ^ d ite inòrcaffhg^eight’pf^the féï;1 hav^dèpofited a great
pùmbef-'èf Faults-rif fand 'rouhd'Shoht thé^mouth o f the river;
fome
fome o f which have formed low and marihy illands: hut the
tfea revenges itfelf daily, for this apparent prolongation o f land, by
advancing always further up the bed o f the river, and by forcing
the waters, thereby obftruited in their free courfe, to ipread
themfelves over the adjacent plain. By thefe means, that tra<5t
o f land, which was once fo fertile, and the feat o f a rich and
flouriffiing city, is now a vail unhealthful fen, from whence a few-
poor fcattered families can fcarcely raife a fufficient fuppiy for a
wretched fickiy life. Yet Rill it would be no very difficult undertaking
to reduce that .plain once more to habitable and fruitful.
ground; it would at lead: coil lefs trouble and expence than
the! ow Polefine, making allowance for the different circumRances
of the fituation ; and by letting things remain in their natural
Rate, the fea has forced the river to retrocede, and to overflow
the land. The lake o f Scardona has perhaps alfo been a plain
watered by the Tizio, till the fea beat back the ciirrent o f that
■river.
The channel that divides the pemnfnla o f Sabmncello from the
continent has all the apperance o f having been in very remote
times the bed of the river Narenta. For the hill which forms
that promontory is not o f vulcanic origin, fo cannot be fuppofed
to have rifen from under ground, or from under water, in its
prefent Rate, but it has been manifeflly feparated from the continuity
of the great mafs that froms the continent, as the neighbouring
iflands have alfo been without all doubt. Per Cola, a
fmall ifland inhabited only by fliepherds, has a quarry o f fluvia-
tile tophus, which certainly was originally produced by fome tar-
tarous river; and in the Rrufture of the fame ifland other dif-
finguiffiable traces Rill remain o f ancient channels. T he fame
thing is obfervable on the ifland o f Lejma, o f which I fhall take
notice in its turn.
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