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banian, like the inhabitant of Montenegro, seeks liberty and 

 exemption from taxes in the wildest abodes ; whilst the Turk 

 bestows on him the epithet of Haiduk, rebel and highway rob- 

 ber. 



These serrated ridges are connected with the Kom and Dor- 

 mitor, two high chains to the east and west of Drobniak (the 

 Drobnasche of maps), as also with the Lubitschnia; all of 

 which are limestone hills capped with snow, and at least as 

 high as the former ones. Farther north, these chains are 

 united to those east of Glubigne, between Mostar and Nova- 

 schin in Herzegowina. It is the BielosoJc of the Vienna map. 



The maps place Plava and the neighbouring snowy chains 

 too far from the Drin and Scutari, and too much to the east ; 

 besides, the Albanian names are ill spelt, and there are nume- 

 rous errors in the position of inns and villages between Prisrend 

 and Scutari. 



It is possible that the eruptions of diorite and serpentine, 

 in the country called mi/rdita, may be contemporaneous with 

 one of the latest upheavings of the chains last mentioned ; and 

 that Bosnia received, during that epoch, its present form, which 

 may be compared to a roof sloping from south to north. 



The cretaceous Jhrmation, with hippurites, compact lime- 

 stone, and marly sandstone, &c., occurs in the superior ter- 

 tiary basin of the White Drin, north and east of Takova ; but 

 this basin, which is at an elevation of 1000 or 1100 feet, is 

 separated from the alluvium of Scutari by a very thick wall of 

 diorite, serpentine, and limestone ; and from this the Drin 

 issues with great velocity at Scale, at six miles east of Scutari. 

 The inferior chalk is found on the coasts of Albania, where 

 it occurs, as in southern Europe, in the form of singularly 

 shaped hills of limestone, which is much more frequently com- 

 pact, like that of the Jura, than fossiliferous or earthy. This 

 chalk is distributed over Dalmatia and part of Herzegowina, 

 and forms numerous high hills around the bay of Cattaro. 

 It extends to Montenegro, where its rocks are so numerous as 

 materially to impede the cultivation of the country ; and the 

 superabundant population make use of this as a pretext for 

 committing robberies on their neighbours, whether Mahome- 

 tans, Catholics, or even Servians of the Greek Church. These 



