The international geography . in Dalmatia: excellent building stoneis quarried in Istria; the Brionian islands, near Pola, furnished themarbles of Venice. The sea affords a rich fishing-ground, resorted to by11,000 fishermen. The trade in fish with the interior suffers, however,from the want of means of communication. The population of the maritime provinces, consisting of the County ofGorizia, the Territory of Truest, the Margravate of Istria, and of the King-dom of Dalmatia has a density of 168 per square mile, much below theaverage. The greater number of the people (68 per cent.) are Slavon
The international geography . in Dalmatia: excellent building stoneis quarried in Istria; the Brionian islands, near Pola, furnished themarbles of Venice. The sea affords a rich fishing-ground, resorted to by11,000 fishermen. The trade in fish with the interior suffers, however,from the want of means of communication. The population of the maritime provinces, consisting of the County ofGorizia, the Territory of Truest, the Margravate of Istria, and of the King-dom of Dalmatia has a density of 168 per square mile, much below theaverage. The greater number of the people (68 per cent.) are Slavonic,in the north Slovenians, in the south Croats and Servians. In theharbours, and along the coast of the maritime provinces, descendantsof the old Roman population still exist, refreshed by Italian 30 per cent, of the inhabitants are Italians, and Italian is thelanguage along the sea. The German element forms little over i per cent. Coast Towns.—The Austrian coast has many excellent ports along Hungary 315. the Dinaric Mountains, but most of the deep and sheltered bays have noimportance, since there are no practicable ways from them into theinterior. That part of the coast, however, which can be easily reachedfrom the other Austrian provinces over the Karst has no good lies on the slope which rises directly to 1,000 feet round an open ancient Greeks had a settlement (Tergeste) on this site, but its de-velopment as a harbour dates only from the decay of Venice, when Austriabegan to make efforts for maritime power. By the foundation of theAustrian Lloyd Steamship Company, and since the opening of the railway,which ascends the Karst in a long loop, Triest became a port of interna-tional importance, but being exposed to the full force of the Bora, andhaving only one mountain railway to the interior, notwithstanding manyimprovements, it has not the rank which the country deserves for its chiefseaport, and the trade of the whole north of Aust
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