dincki-Jlap; * in the neighbourhood o f which, fome trifling
ruins o f aquedufts are ftill to-, be feen. But they are fure-
ly excufable, if, through eagernefs to do honour to their
native country, they have afcribed to Trajan*-a.- merit thirty
times greater than he really had, in either building, or repairing
this aqueduit; as they were certainly unacquainted
with the country that lies between. Skradincki-Jlap,, and the fea
coaft o f Zara, for the Turks were in poffeffion o f it, when they,
wrote. The remains o f the aqueduit are firft feen, at a little,
diftance from the wails o f Zara, along the fea fide, towards the-
village o f San. Caiiano ; then through the wood o f Tuftiza, (as.
far as the Torrette, where they lerve as; a foot-path to travellers;;
and laftly at San. Filippo and Giacomo ; and further on, at Za--
ravecchia, where their traces are loft, but feem to have been di-
re&ed to the neighbouring river o f Kakma, which is diftant from.
Skradincki-Jlap, thirty miles at leaft, in a right line. The mountains
that rife between that place, and Zaraveechia, are much
higher than the cafcade o f the river, and therefore it would have,
been impoffible to convey water from thence. They are alfo divided
by large valleys, io that there ought to appear frequent remains
o f arches, fuppofing the waters o f the Tizio could have,
been brought by fuch a road : Now there is not a fingle veftige.
o f an aquedud to be feen, within the’ compafs o f thirty miles,,
that can juftify this inconfiderate aflertion o f Lucio and Gliubavaz,..
and the vulgar opinion. The infcription which I mentioned be-,
fore, neither fays, nor gives ground to guefs from whence the
water conveyed by Trajan was brought,
B i o g r a d !
* ScardenUus lapfut.
B io g r a d , or A l b a M a r i t iMa .
Biograd; now a poor village on the fea-fide, known by us,
and marked in the maps, by the name o f Zaraveechia-, given to
it in the times o f ignorance, was formerly a'corifiderable city.
The fituation, diftances,5 and fome infcriptions that have been
found, feem to indicate;1 that Bldndona was fituated near this
fpot, but by no means, the ancient Jadera', as CellariUs imagined.
* It is, however, certain, that in ’the middle times,
this was a place o f confeqUence, by the frequent, refidence, and
coronation of feveral kings o f Croatia, ’ and particularly o f Cre-
fimir, who founded a monaftery there; in 1059. Biograd is
called in the records of thofe times, AlbaMdtitirtta and by Por-
phyrogenitUs, Belgrade, according to the cuftom o f the Slavi,
who frequently called the cities, where their princes refidcd, by
that name, -j- It had the title o f biihopriclc, which was transferred
to Scardona, when the doge Ordelajb Faliero caufed it to
be demoliihed, in the heat o f the war with the Hungarians.
From thefe ruins, in the courfe o f years; a village arofe, which
became peopled by a fet of meny who making rapine and violence
their bufinefs, merited the indignation o f government,
and it was levelled with the ground, in the lalt age. It is now
inhabited
* PoJijuath jadera tji, wav»* Ptolomeo, et Plinio Colonia Jadera, memorata
etiam M e l lib. a. £. 3. Hodie vocatur locus Zara Vecchia, ultra Zaram Novam,
vifendus cum riideribus nojlra Jadera. Cellar. Notll. Orb. Antiqui. 1. 2. c. 8.
f Bielograd, or Belograd, or Biograd;, fignifles white city. Bmfimus Dec. 1.
lib. vi. mentions Belgrade, among the maritime cities of Dalmatia, deftroyed
b yA t t ila ; though it ihould feem, that before the irruption o f the Huns, the
City ought not to be called’ by the name it bore in after ages. But i f it aifuaily
bore that name, it would become a new proof of the antiquity of the Sclavonian
language in Illyrium.