s on a promontorybarely lifted above the water level. We recognize thehuge drum of S. Donate, the tower of S. Maria, andthe few other architectural features of the townwhich make perhaps less show from the sea thanany other city in Dalmatia, and entering its historicharbour touch the land opposite… … Jj!^^4i fuA^cor^r. Fig. 102. CHAPTEE XXIX. ISTRIA, AND ITS HiSTORY. The triangular peninsula of Istria is dividedfrom the Alps by a band of stony desert alnijostunique in Europe. This district of the Carso,Carsia, or Karst, is said to have been covered tillmodern times by oak forests, which have…
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