FLORA OF DALMATIA, r$? 
is 4200 feet. The river Cettina seems to have here violently 
forced its way into the sea; for another ridge, which proceeds 
down along the coast by Macareska to the Narenta, called the 
Biocovo, was doubtless once united with the Mosor. The 
highest elevation of the Biocovo is 5520 feet, and this, with the 
Dinara, constitutes the extreme point of Dalmatian vegetation. 
Besides these ridges, the Continent of Dalmatia consists of 
capes (among which the Buccovitza is 3100 feet, the Tartar’s 
Hill, 1560 feet, the Karban, 2456 feet, and Sweti Jura, which 
rises behind Spalato, 2135 feet), and of stony plains, of which 
the most extensive reaches from Novigrad over Nona and Zara, 
to the Kerka. : 
The other portion of Dalmatia, namely, the Islands, may 
be considered rather hilly than flat; Brazza and Scolta hav- 
ing the lowest, and Lissa and Corzola the highest mountains. 
The lines of vegetation in Dalmatia may, therefore, be thus 
drawn:—firstly, from north to south, and there again the 
boundary between Trau and Sibenico is marked by a natural 
line, separating the southerly from the more northerly Flora: 
the first possesses the characters of the Grecian and Apulian 
vegetation: while the second includes the productions of 
Croatia and Istria. The Islands belong to the first;—upon 
them, at an equal elevation with the Continent, grow many 
of the southern plants which are not seen there, as Punica 
Granatum, Myrtus communis, and Viburnum Tinus, &c. The 
Oleander (Nerium Oleander) marks the proper boundary 
between the southern and northren vegetation of Dalmatia, 
the first taking place at Salona: the line then passes to the 
Isles through Lessina and Lissa, which have a very different 
Vegetation from the other Islands. Other lines may be drawn 
from east to west, thus dividing the Flora of the plains, of the 
sea-shore, of the stony hills, and of the higher mountains. 
But before proceeding to a more minute statement of the 
Vegetation, it is requisite to say a few words on the climate, 
that influential cause, equally powerful with the soil. The 
Situation of Dalmatia, which is a tract of land, in some parts 
sixty German miles wide, extending from the sea-shore inland 
