t The iiland o f LeiLna.L-though ftoney, and barren In the high-
eft parts o f it, contains trafls o f very good land, lit to bear,f.'not
only fruit trees, but likewife corn. Hence this iiland is better
peopled ¡than aayt <ah« iai'AftlllyricjfiaNi/ dnthfamfe-'ofsrts .villages
defcrvc the name o f large;.-boroughsy ,,u®d ¡¡exceed itnihunrber iM
inhabitants; many lmall cities., t Among;thefectheTargeft is that
which arote out of the ruins o f the ancient .Faria,' and ft ftill called
the old oityu !it:lieS(OOithe>feaj&fc,jiwi.thiVeryipleafan.t 'ftelds
towards theshiUsc 1ahdia/CQmmpdiou&barpcwrbefoi'e it. In- this;
place' alone the fea.yields, to ¡the. prolongatiorf i of'the land; and the;
manifeft caufe, ris the dedivity, o f the fields behind , the village,
which are extended, fin ¡an .eafji afeenty; along the fide of the
mountain, q-and flanked ;by very high land towards the upper extremity:
¡..The muddy waters, that delcend after the rains, - de-
pofiteuthe earth; ¡with which they were laturated ..on .theThore,’
and by little, and. little fill it Ltpaf. I t alfo appeared to me, by
the few aneientruins remainingtabove^ground, i that ifTaiia1 day
almoft two miks.£urther;back:than.1'the,iold ¡city a<ftoaHyj:does^
and the accounts given nae by the . inhabitants confirmed me-in
this opinion., I faw only two ancient pieces.in this ¡.place, the
moft: valuable o f which is a bafs-relief liiffieiently well proferved
in .¡Greek’ marble,- whicb.veprefems/a/bark-'UMder ¡.fail; with .-the.
redder on the right'fide of the.poopyhaad -thei.fteerfinan...: .The.
other is a fephulchral bals-rclief,; ill cut. ;.-f was;¡-obliged to. goto
find the firft on. the top»ofirthe.fteepk,jin.whioh building-it is-
ptobable that ¡many ¡monuments o f the Earii have periihtd. I
found ms triacosjof Greek infraiptiansii1 and ¡only )a .fi.ngle;tfepul--
chcali monfimest inXatin.yca mile .without-the village!,; vWhiclT
I copied, and repented .of-going fo far to find it, J'TheTnhabi-v
tants.:«fithisdfland;are tall;,of ftature, couragious, ;:and lively:
they apply themfelves much to navigation, and the people.
in.
in general are employed in fi&iag, and in building barks and
boats.
From the old city, I went on horfeback to the fmall’ bay o f
Zucova, where there is a harbour toieriably’gbdd forfiihitogkoats;
Along the fliore of that bay, there is a whitidi flatey marble,
with the ilahs o f which, the'iflamders o f Dalmatia, generally, ¡ufe
to cover their houfeij:7/It happens oftenr-that, in;îfplktir>g;thi3
thiokeft laminoe GΕ this¡fpecies-'of¡ ftone,- ‘theimprdlEoak at' marine
plants,-aùdiDfifiiliesjüBaDknown in-1 odi'-feasviare difoévered*
but the chance of finding the impreliions, arid the banes o f the
fiihes petrified is very rare, tho’ that o f the ...plants is very common*
but them are; not many différent .fpeaies^afcthemt; oLmpçeiEtmsmf
Coralline! plants -ars;rajwy .-and «¡he onlyone thàtüi naréff'withüwell
expreffe.d', is gone to England to have a place in a very rich-jcoi-
ledtion, together with the few fifties that I could find on that ipot„
1 alfo found there mufcles changed into ftone, but ill prefcrved,
-and disfigured. The fea, not obliged by local’ caufes to ’recede,
encroaches upon the coail o f Zukova, -and'fuhmerges again, by.
little and little, j The curve ftrata o f flatey marble, in ¡which
the. tkeletons of the fifties lie buried, witli remain in the eoiirtb
of time, " Covered w ith . ¡gravel" and Tandy mivediwithi thestfcfta&i
ceous bodies: o f .the ¡Adriacickqoapd.-iviH. affbrdl juactdr wf Ttutlyi
to the1 nat-uralifts- of futurdragèb; i f any.’ o f tehete! i a n ?toe
there to examine that; fpot, become fubacjubou», fori àji&ijranft&s
dry. A ¡naturalifticanndt -indefeiUbesgreitJyibl amed, ; who havîng
drawn up- a: petrifadtion, frm#rfome4 torïfeyv ftiaiürtr-'Xn) the ¡bottom
o f the feay beMeves.it Torthed by the waters under which
it lay ; -and yet in fadt the prooT isevident,^hap-fcils* noége.ne-1
rally fo : and the large pieces o f marble co&tiaiflifeg-Jîà/«w&m.-
a i ... ; andi