Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . combinedwith a southerly or sou-westerly asjDect, makesboth cities very hot in summer ; and Fiume is avery oven of a place from which the traveller willdo well to escape as soon as he can, and he will notfind anything of very particular interest to detainhim. Like Trieste, Fiume has its old and its newtown, the latter on the sIojdo of the hill, the formerlying along the shore. Although in the old townthere is nothing to compare with the cathedral ofS. Giusto at Trieste, Fiume has its Homan arch toset again
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . combinedwith a southerly or sou-westerly asjDect, makesboth cities very hot in summer ; and Fiume is avery oven of a place from which the traveller willdo well to escape as soon as he can, and he will notfind anything of very particular interest to detainhim. Like Trieste, Fiume has its old and its newtown, the latter on the sIojdo of the hill, the formerlying along the shore. Although in the old townthere is nothing to compare with the cathedral ofS. Giusto at Trieste, Fiume has its Homan arch toset against the arco di Kiccardo. It is but a batteredand defaced fragment of the ancient Tarsatica, yeteven in its ruin it asserts itself by the huge size ofits stones, and by that inexpressible air of belongingto a different state of things from the present whichstamps the work of the ancient masters of theworld (Fig. 91). Ch. XXVII.] Fiume. 165 The new town consists of handsome streets andtall white buildings like the modern part of is bordered by a wide quay along the harbour,. Fig. 91. ankle deep in white dust, a region where you areblinded by the glare, and scorched by the sunshinewhich is reflected from the houses till the air is likethat of a furnace. The population is over 13,000, 166 Tersatto. [Ch. xxvii. and the town has a general aii* of prosperity. It isthe only sea-port of the kingdom of Hungary, andstands to that part of the Empire of the Hapsburgsin the same relation as Trieste to the German we add that it is the residence of the Governor ofthe Litorale, and that the manufactm-e for which itis most famous is that of Mr. Whiteheads torpedoes,nothing will be left unsaid about it that the readerwould be interested to know. On a hill to the south-east of Fiume, anddivided from it by a magnificent ravine, is Tersatto,the Tarsatica of Pliny ^, a place which though nowa humble village was, it would seem, known whenFiume as yet was not. Here the Frangipani had
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