mans ; and in each o f them, are found monuments o f that na».
tion which over-ran the then whole known world. At Zlarine
there was dug up, in the 16th century, the fepulchral marble
of a woman called Panfiana, with the title o f queen. The
learned of thofe times, who were numerous in the neighbouring
city, made many fruitlefs refearches about the country from
whence that lady came thither } and finding no veftage in hido-
ry, they conjedtured, with great probability, that ihe mud have
been fome barbarous queen, who, after ferving to embelliih the
vidtor’s triumph, was baniihed to that ifland to finiih her days.
I could not find the infcription, nor indeed any other traces be-
fides thofe which the manufcript memorials o f thofe times fur-
niihed we with,
Parvich, though o f fmall circuit, is extremely fertile. Every
produit fucceeds in perfedtion there ; I mean thofe produits of
which a very (hallow ground is fufceptible ; fuch as wine, oil,
mulberry trees, and fruit. The afpedl o f this iiland is alfo very
pleafant at a diftance, whereas that of the others adjacent dii-
gufts the eye, by their too high, rocky and bare hills. The
name o f Parvich feems to have been given it becaufe it is the
firft one meets with on going out of the harbour o f Sibenico ;
for the Illyric word parvi lignifies firft.
The ifland o f Zuri is mentioned by Pliny under the name o f
Surium -, and it feems that Parvich, and Zlarine, with many
other fmaller iflands, to the number o f fifty and upwards, are
colLedtively called by him Celaduffee, plainly inverting the Greek
word io<ncaXaSo(, which means ill-founding, or noify. The text
of Pliny, i f the common reading is followed, contains a notable
blunder in chorography ; but this may be eafily redtified by a
flight
•flight change in the pundtuation, and read thus : Nee paudores
ftrucones fln fu hsj Liburnicx. Cfiadujfix contra Surium. Bubus,
et capris laudata Brattia * . Zuri is, in reality, more expofed to
the fea than the others j ^and^ oppofite, between Zuri and the
continent, are JCaufvan, Qqpri, and Smolan, which name indicates
the ancient cuftom o f making rofin there. is inhabited
■only by ihephprds;; final! iflands remarkable for an
■excellent quarry of, hard.»^te. Hone, which might be at
much lefs expence, and, would be much more durabje than trie
Vicentine ftones. Parvich and Zlarine ate cultivated and. populous,
befides many., Qtl^qr fmaller, iflands. The drefs of the
women of thefe Cel'duJJis is different from that of. the.females
o f the ‘Trucones, or iflands o f the canal o f Zara,
But'the-remains o f Roman habitations, flill to be.feenon the
ifland o f Zuri, ferve not near- fo much to , diftiqgujdi it as its
■coral fiihing, which -is never inconftderablg in the waters around
it, -and, thirty years ago, was o f immenfe value, by means, o f ,a
very fertile bank then difc&yered. , A lover o f natural hiftpry,
inftrudted by the exam pie, o f your celebrated Qpunt. Marfigli,.
would make many valuable.acquifitions, and. curiQu^difepver.ies^
by (idling in the depth fuitcd ,to .the .multiplipaUon, .of.poral,
and could not but wiih to live foine months here in one o f
thefe coral boats. How many o f the Teftaceous tribe, dill unknown,
might not there be brought to lig h t; andj how many
originals of petrifadtions, that are geaeiially fuppqfeffloft or extinct
fpecies, might not- falluntoourjhands ?,»1,1.conceived this
wiih very earneftly, but ciretimftances- and reflations differed
me not to gratify it. Inftead o f being guided .by my inclina-
steiwciilsi . X. ¡i MBcn-naomio -<■ .. . tion,
* Plin. Hift. Nat. Lib. Ill* cap. ult.