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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 351
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Foreign Literature. Jpoets Madame And Po...
passed as the Latin nearest poet to sings called , thinking Sansego perhaps is inhabited of these b very a few islands hundreds . The of one very we
poor people , who , subsist on the produce , of their flocks y , and are often without capital enough even to carry on the trade of fishermen—seeming entirely cut
off from all communication with the current of European life and commerce we that could flows see past a little their rock green y dwelling spot lying place in . a hollow Here and opening there , towards at long intervals the sea , ,
and containing a vineyard and some olives ; and still more rarely , at not less edges than of the ten rocks miles a distance solitary , some tree , the caprice Hara of _JLrbor Nature , I has suppose planted , above on the alluded very
to . These unaccountable lonely hermit-like specimens of their race , form quite a characteristic feature of the upper mountain regions of the Dalmatic the coast cedar _* and of islands Lebanon , and , a perhaps sort of sacred , because character of their rarity and have , appear chapels to possess and burial , like
places 1 ' We in did their not neig reach hbourhood , Zara , . the chief town of , Dalmatia till after dark , and there left it ) again I saw before on this day occasion light , no so more that of ( thoug that h interesting I afterwards cit made than some could stay be
distinguished by the lantern of the watchman at the Sea y -gate , and the tallow Hotel ; candles and I believe on the it supper will in table general at be the advi Locanda sable for al tourists Vapo ? 'e , to or go Steam on at
their once , as retur I did n j , ourney to Cattaro . The , and distance linger from as they Trieste please to this at , various the farthest points point on forty of Dalmatia milesbetwe , is about en two 300 long miles islands . The and Canale the rock de Za hills ?* a runs of the for main thirty land or
and offers , in its numerous rocks and crags , as well y as its excellent little , the bays Circle and harbours of Spalato , about alone equal , there facilities are counted for shi fifty pwreck of these and for porii rescue morti . In or
_" dead harbours" as they are called , and I could not help thinking how be sadl purchased y the advantage bmany was other thrown countries away that in D have almatia not , a and sing how le good gladl refuge y it would for
vessels in many y miles of coast . brated " As group day dawned of half we a were dozen passing larger , the and " Itock innumerable s of Sebenico smaller , " a , islands rather , cele in-
habited fishery . by These an active two valuable race of men _inductions chiefly occup are found ied in onl the y on coral the Ill and yrian sponge and not at all on the Italian side of the Adriatic , where the coast is mostly fiat
and ' The without sponges rocks are , and usuall the y water found shallow at no greater . depth than from two or three fathoms , and are detached by the fishermen with an iron instrument ,
somethe thing like Neptune when it ' s lies trident much . lower Their even practised when eye the s can water however is far distinguish from clear . The sponge coral is , found only in much deeper , water , and is obtained by means of
of an the iron sea implement a rude method and a sack b let which down by a beautiful roi _^ e , and dragged branches along of coral the are bottom entirely destroyed , . y many
endless "Now succession that it was of day islands light and , and rocks that that I had we got had almost to pass tired — of ' ' these gazing blessed at the rocks ScoliJ " as for an the Italian Italians monk are called in the them habit between of " blessing his teeth " what , ( questi other benedetti nations
g curse , and in and precisel found y that the same we had sense left , —I turne of d them to look behind again at at my Zara fellow but passengers some in whom , I had been most interested many were left . Among these were , a
hundre and who d young had had Italian to bear soldiers a far , larger mostly share from than the p any lains body of Lomb else ard of y- the Venice pri- , vations and troubles of a sea voyage ; but who had nevertheless been all the
way tihe were company entertaining some Austrian , with the their officers much merry , better civil songs and cared and military for obli , _Jbxit ging , several much ways . less priests Besides cheerful and these part monk there , of s ,
Notices Of Books. 351
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 351
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/63/
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