down, and then they throw fome meafures of oats above it in
the lame veiTel, which forms a cruft, and fometimes begins to
grow. In this manner they may be preferved two years. The
Venetian Morlacchi do not prepare their cabbage in this manner,
they only let them ferment and grow four in Water, and thus
they eat them the whole year round. Since the laft war with
the king o f Pruffia, the Likans and Corbavia'ns have introduced
the culture o f potatoes, by them called krumpir, and they fuc-
ceed extremely well.
The country o f Lika was Once in much better circumftances
than it is at prefent; the paftage from the Ottoman to the Auf-
triao .yoke, brought along with it a change o f Conftitution,
which reduced the inhabitants to the moft miferable condition.
They have loft, without any exception, the right of property of
land; that is diftribufed among the foldiers, and on the death
o f a foldier, his refpeddve portion retu’rns to the fovereign. I f
he happens -to leave a family, a mother, a widow, children,
all thofe wretched viftims afe obliged to leave their habitation,
and to beg their bread elfewhere. The ihepherds, and proprietors
o f flocks and herbs, are equally wretched :; they are not at
liberty to fell their cattle, when, Or how they pleafe, but muft
depend on the will of the officer quartered in their diftritft. Por
the moft part the cattle are taken, and paid for in the military
wav, that is .to fay, for the half o f what they are worth. The
cane is made ufe of" on thofe vvretches for the 'moft trifling
caufes, and as they know it, they often fly into the Turki'fh
territory, where they are leis cruelly treated. ‘At Carlobago,
where the fame kind o f military juftice is in ufe, f have feen
fuch inftances o f inhumanity, as are too ihocking'to he rdlated.
Nor are thofe poor people allowed the wretched confolation o f
complaining,
complaining, the fm^left complaint is called fcdition, and pu-
niflied with barbarous feverity.
Oppofite to the mo.untain Morlacca lies the ¡(land o f Pago,
about thirty miles, in length : it was, probably, known by the
ancients under the name of Fortunata. This ifland encloies
among its rocks a fait- water lake ten miles m length, where a
vaft quantity of fait is made j it is. frequented by the'tunny g jh ,
which, when once in it, cannot return again to the fea. The
figure of this ifland is. remarkably irregular ; its breadth is. in no
proportion to its. length, and <?ne o f the extremities called Punta
di Leni is abqve ten miles lopg,( and lefs than one broad.
Almoft all the circumference is difmal, without trees, or any
kind of vifible plants or graft, fteejp,, craggy and uninhabitecl.
When I entered the lake, through the channel that communi'
cates w i t h the fea, I could fee nothing on the right and left
hand, but bare hanging rocks, fo. disfigured on the outfide by the
violent percuflion o f the waves, that the ftratification was hardly
diftinguiihable. In general, the ftone o f the ifland is o f the
fame kind as the Iftrian, or breccia, and befides, there are large
ftrata of blue and yellowiih fandftone. The channel, or inward
hay o f Pago is not a harbour j on the contrary, it is a very dangerous
ftation, and even inacceffible in winter, when the boreal
wind blows with fuch fury, that the inhabitants o f the town
dare not ftir out of their houfes, and much left the few that
are fcatt.red over the country. The iky appears always cloudy
in that feafpn,. by the thick mift that rifes from the repercuffion
o f the waves on that long chain of rough and hollow rocks.
The town of Pago, built by the Venetians about three hun--
dred years ago, contains upwards of two thoufand inhabitants,
and