ket. at Venice,, which, ftnce the beginning o f this age, has paid a
heavy tribute to the northern fiftieth I f only the half o f the
money that the nation annually fpends in unwholefome pitchers
were diffufefi in Dalmatia, the whole province would feel a Confiderable
benefit, and the publick revenue would be agumerited.
The filhing at Lefina Was in former times o f greater confequCnce
than it is at prefent; and then it was perhaps true, that all
Italy, and a good part of the Levant, were provided with fardels
from thence, and the dependant illand of Lifia, as Mr, Bufching
fays. Rakia is alfo a commodity o f fome importance at Lefina,
as well as in the other Illyric iftands, and on the fea coaft o f
Dalmatia;, but the capital reaps little advantage from this alfo;
becaiife the economical regulations, concerning the products of
that vaft and fertile province, are all equally ill directed.
O f the Ifland o f B r a z z a .
This ifland; never was, as far as we can conjedlure, inhabited
by.a people o f any-fame:: Scilax only juft mentions it, by the
name o f Rmtm, Cratia, Polybius by that o f Bftxrsce, Breflia:
Licophron calls it KpaSic, Crathi; Pliny, Atoninus, and Peu-
tinger Brattia, Porphyrogenitus ¡B fffip Barzo; and ftyles it-
and Lefina as xccXi Igae,- ^ ¿\jtpofaTUTac> very beautiful and fertile.
It is thirty-two miles in length, o f unequal breadth, but never
exceeds nine miles. The inhabitants affert, that, in old times,
' there was a city in the place, now called Scrip; but it feems-
ftrange, that alL the Greek and Latin geographers have pafled
that city, over iiWfilence, fuppofing it actually to have exiifed.
Bufching has given this ifland a town for its capital, by the name
o f Brazza, and has alfo placed a Bifhop to refide there, though,
there is actually no town o f that name; - flor a Bifhop’s refidence
on.
on the ifland, and the place that ought to be reckoned the capital
is Nerefi, where the governor, who has the title o f Count,
ufually refides, as being the moil convenient fituation for the
adminiilration o f juftice to the iflanders. The celebrated geographer
above mentioned, has thrown together a good number
o f little blunders in the few words he fays concerning this ifland.
They are, “ Brazza, Braltia, takes its name frôm the town
“ Brazza, where a Biftiop refides. T he VenetiaU'Count, or
“ governour has his habitation at' f.P fë tro ,’ a Jplàèe;fituiàted on
“ the weft fide of the iiflarid near fhe-jjbh b f Milnâ:'*^ TS'lBte
actual miftakes comprifed in the firft words, it muil be added,
that S. Pietro, is not on the weft o f the ifland, nof near the
port of Milna. * §
r - ipt u i iiMingoi lBOirfionoos orii Ski
X x. 2 • Kftnof îfal Brazza
* Mr. Bufching out either have been illfervpd byhis correfpondents, or have
copied from bad originals, when he wrote of Dalmatia. I had not that volume
of his vvoric under my eye till late, and therefore coukl not point, out the, principal
inaccuracies in their proper place. I prbteft that I ..am not iLothe
leaft degree of malice againft that very deferving man ; every, writer is ‘but too
much fubjia to want of exaànef?; But I conclude that I am doing a re?l fervice,
not only to Mr. Bufching, but'to his readers, by ¿dvertifing'them of’foinelioia-
bletniftakes, which it Would he well, if fomebody took the trouble of corlj>aing
province by province. It is not true that the., Dalmatians, (Nof-LLf pî.-yS- N r#
Florence^ are Greeks by nation andreligion,\ a part of them indeed follow .the Greek
tite but not the largeft part. Nona a* ftffl a heap of ruins, and fo .far from
being a .good ftrtrefs (page 76) that ‘it can ! fcarcely be called a walled town.
Vrana (p. 77) fadfrom beingaiii i f the mo/1 dellkious places in Dalmatia, is a frightful
heap of rubbilh, neither-’inhabited, bor.habitahle., Kninfp. 78; is watered
by the : river Butimfchiza^ not by tbe-£olifniw, an.4 is, :not tbefeaf of .a Bijhop.
Demies (p. 79)’ is not d atp of tittleconfequence, but a poor village; and the pathe.
dral of Sebenico is not in the c a j l l e Nor is Clifla a city, fp. 8of neither does the
road that leads into Turkey, pafs near that fort through a valley, but on the fide
0/a mountain. Salona was not fituated in a beautiful plain, but at the foot,
and