70 FLORA OF DALMATIA. 
notice of the scattered inhabitants of this wilderness; here and 
there an armed Morlach, covered to the chin with dirt! The 
glimpse, however, of the sea, and the islands in the Morlacca 
Canal, studded with fresh verdure, may give the wanderer 
courage to pass the last stony rocks which lie between the 
mountain and Obrovazzo. I reached the latter place at about 
noon, on the 9th of July; and, passing over its ruined walls, 
looked with horror into the dark channel of the Zermagna, 
on whose left bank the place is situated; my thermometer in- 
dicated 28? (Reaumur) in the shade, and yet I felt more com- 
fortable, exposed to the sun's rays, than pent up in the narrow 
and pestiferous streets of this little town, which is entered 
through small gates, only half of which is ever opened, 
but which would require to be thrown altogether, to give a 
comfortable passage. A hill, surmounted by an old triangular 
castle, that proved the former dominion of the Turks, was 
covered with abundance of the beautiful Conyza candida. In 
the evening, I went up the Zermagna to a waterfall which it 
forms at about one and a half stund from the town: the 
tide flows up to it, and the river, which is navigable for ships, 
produces plenty of fish and oysters, which are celebrated 
for their size and flavour. ‘Two old mills, situated on each 
side of the Zermagna, are covered with Campanula mu- 
ralis, (Portenschlag) ; I gathered seeds and flowers of this, but 
nothing else, the sheep having destroyed every plant that the 
heat had spared. Inula crithmifolia and Pulicaria accom- 
panied me back to the shore. I started in the night, along à 
fine chaussée, to the district Bukowitza, famous for its robbers. 
'The deserts of Arabia could not be more sterile than this coun- 
try, which only seemed to differ by possessing one evergreen 
shrub. From the highest elevation, the sea of Novegrad and the 
little Lake of Karin, united to it by a canal, might be seen. 
'The road winds round the lake to the Klostor Karin, the first 
regular building that recalls the idea of civilization: but what 
kind of civilized beings are the people here! On establishing 
the new road, the pious clergy protested against its line being 
drawn near their territory, for fear of secular commotions; 
