There are foffil marine bodies between Oiirovizza, and Mor-
polazza, upori'the hills o f StancOvzi, and between Morpolazza
and the fea, on all the fkirts o f Bagnevaz, and Radeffinovaz.
There were many other Roman eftabliffiments in the diftriit
o f Zara, o f which, although even their names are loft, the
traces may be found by the help o f the Charta Peutingeriana;
forne o f the names ftill remain; as, Carin, and Nadin, which
rofe from the ruins o f Corimum and Nedinum § but as I did
not fee them, I can give no account o f what is to be obferved
about them; only I was told, that the veftiges o f an Amphitheatre
ftill remain near Carin.
I chofe to mention, though perhaps with a tirefome pnecifion,
all the places where I found any foffils o f marine origin j and all
the plains, and rich pleafant valleys, which i faw in my ride
through a fmall part o f the diftriift o f Z a ra ; that your Lordihip
might not fuffer yourfelf to be deceived by what Donati* has
written, though indeed with little truth, o f the eternal rocks o f
Dalmatia, and o f the continuity o f I know not what marble
rock which compofes it j as well as o f the rarity, or difficulty o f
diftinguiffiing any marine foffil.bodies. It cannot be denied, that
fome o f the mountains in that‘kingdom are rugged, and frightful;
but it mail be added, that there are alfo large diftrifts. where no
mountain exifts; and that even among the mountains themfel ves,
there are very pleafant and fertile valleys, T he fame Donati,
who was my townfman, a Paduan, has alfo, in his Sagglo, given
rather an unfavourable charadter of the people, who inhabit the
inland
* Donati Saggio di Storia Nat, p. 8, 9,
inland parts o f the Province, and was undoubtedly in the wrong to
tell us, that fea r o f the barbarity o f the people, and the danger o f
making refearches, hindered Spon and Wheeler from proceeding into
midland Dalmatia ; for thefe two travellers were bound to the
Levant, and embarked in a Venetian (hip o f w a r ; confequently,
when they landed at any port, they were not at liberty to make
any diftant excurfions. Befides, Spon found fo much generous
hofpitality in the maritime places, and efpecially at Spalatro, and
was fo well fatisfied with the honefty and reafonablenefs o f the
Morlack guides, who accompanied him, in fome ffiort rambles
on horfeback, that he never could dream o f fearing the barbarity
o f the inlana people. It is eafy to confult Spon himfelf, in the firft
volume o f his travels, where he gives an account of his jaunt to
Clifla j and if your Lordihip w ill have the patience to read, one
day or other, the detail o f what I have perfonally experienced
on that head among the Morlacks, you will no longer believe
that people barbarous to fuch a degree, as to render travelling itt
their country in the leaff dangerous>