. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. longer deserves to be called the " Mother of the Adriatic," for it is far inferior now to the Isonzo, whose delta advances at the rate of 23 feet a year.* A second Recca, or Recina (a word signifying "river"), rises on the Liburnian Carso, and flows through a fearfully savage gorge towards the Quarnero, which it enter? a short distance below Fiume. A few hundred yards above its mouth a spring gushes forth from the foot of the rocks, its waters rushing into the channel of the river and filling the western port of Fiume, after hav
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 2 Miles. longer deserves to be called the " Mother of the Adriatic," for it is far inferior now to the Isonzo, whose delta advances at the rate of 23 feet a year.* A second Recca, or Recina (a word signifying "river"), rises on the Liburnian Carso, and flows through a fearfully savage gorge towards the Quarnero, which it enter? a short distance below Fiume. A few hundred yards above its mouth a spring gushes forth from the foot of the rocks, its waters rushing into the channel of the river and filling the western port of Fiume, after having put in motion the * Delivery of the Recca at St. Canzian, 5 to 141 cubic feet per second. Discharge of the , 14 to 1,060 cubic feet per second ; average, 328 cubic feet.
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