he fiourifhed fifty years before that time. One only o f his works,
and a very whimfical one, is printed, intitled Controver-
fia Lyaei, atque Tethidis, Vien. 1634. It is a medley o f fcrip-
ture paifages, parodied, to carry on this controverfy, which, ne-
verthelefs, is treated before the tribunal of God. Perhaps Ma-
croneo compofed it in earned; but, in our times, fuch a mixture
o f facred and profane would carry rather too burlefque an
appearance.
Martino Rota, a painter and engraver, was alfo born at Sibe-
nicoj and there dill remain feveral of his prints, among which are
various chorographical maps o f Dalmatia, not exait, yet o f fome
ufe. Two of the three prints o f Antonio Veranzio, which are
preferved in the family o f the Counts Veranzii, were engraved
by this artift.
Andrea, known by the name o f Schiavone, was alio born at
Sibenico, o f very obfcure origin, but an excellent painter,
whofe works are held in high edeem by the lovers of that noble
art, notwithdanding the diiadvantageous judgment that Vafari is
pleafed to form o f them.
O f the Port o f S i b e n i c o , and the Lake f S c a r d o n a , and
o f fome ancient Cu/loms.
T h e harbour o f Sibenico is large, and one o f the mod beautiful
that can be feen, by the variety o f hills, and little promontories
that furround it, and form a kind o f theatre. The city
ftands on the water-fide, extending along the lower part o f a
hill, and flanked by the rugged hills called ‘Tartart:, which are
covered by the gravel o f apcient rivers, hardened into breccia.
The
The fiver Kerka, after entering into the lake o f Scardona,
forms a new channel for itfelf among the rocks, and running
three miles further with a gentle courfe, forms a fecond lake below
Sibenico, fix miles in length, and then falls into the fea,
through the narrow drait o f St. Antonio. T he Romans had a
fettlement between the mouths o f the two rivers Goducchia
and Jujova, both which fall into the Lake o f Scardona ;
however, the vediges are now fcarcely perceptible, and- yet
they merit fome attention, becaufe they -afford a manifed
jproof o f the rife o f the waters. T h e mofaic-' pavements,
and the divifions o f the ruined chambers, -are, at lead, two
feet under the ordinary level of=the- lake, which ebbs and
flows according to the tide.* There is-alfo a long wharf under
water, which joins the point o f the peninfula formed by the
two rivers to the ifolated rock' Suftipanax. On this rock there is
a ruined church, which, in other times, perhaps, was a temple
o f the Gentiles. In a map o f the territory -of Sibenico, done
by the above mentioned Martino Rota, 15 71, are to be feen
feveral habitations, poderior to thofe o f the Romans, and fitu-
ated on the point, which extends itfelf within the the lake, between
the two mouths, - and is called Razlina » which fpot is
now quite, defert.
Among the poetical compofitions o f Difnico there is an elegy
on Sibenico, wherein are various articles relating particularly
to the natural hidory of the waters of that neighbourhood.
The following is a paffage of that old poetical naturalid, and,
fuch as it is, I ihould think it wrong to fupprefs it.* “ The
“ river
* The original Illyrick.