Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . e island ofUgliano crowned with the any castle of S. Micheletell us that we are approaching the capital of Dal-matia. The range of the Yelebic, now far away,melts under the blinding light of a cloudless day intoa gauze-like phantom of its rugged self, so tenderand unsubstantial that it might almost be mistakenfor a bank of clouds. We pass Puntamica where theNarentines defeated the Venetians and slew theirdoge Pietro Candiano, and Zara at last appears in thedistance, a low line of white buildings on a promo
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . e island ofUgliano crowned with the any castle of S. Micheletell us that we are approaching the capital of Dal-matia. The range of the Yelebic, now far away,melts under the blinding light of a cloudless day intoa gauze-like phantom of its rugged self, so tenderand unsubstantial that it might almost be mistakenfor a bank of clouds. We pass Puntamica where theNarentines defeated the Venetians and slew theirdoge Pietro Candiano, and Zara at last appears in thedistance, a low line of white buildings 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 the Lion of St. Markthat looks down upon us from the Porta di San Griso-gono, as he has done from gate and bastion in everyDalmatian town save one that we have visitedbetween Cattaro and Fiume. 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 beendestroyed by the fires of shepherds or the toothof the flocks of goats that pasture there ; but ifthere is any truth in the derivation of the nameKarst from a Celtic root which means stony, thecountry must at all times have been somewhat ofa desert. 250 I stria: History. [Ch. xxix. Within this sterile borderland the peninsulastrikes the eye as fertile and well-wooded,especially if it is seen after Dalmatia, compared towhich Istria is a garden of Eden, The surface isundulating^, and the interior attains a considerableelevation, but the only mountain is MonteMao-Dfiore near Fiume, which rises to the heio
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