LA CAVERNA DI GABROVIZZA PRESSO TRIESTE 



DEL 



Dr. Carlo Marchesetti. 



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'-'^H^^^è-^'^ always doubted, despite the robust belief of my 

 friend Luciani, that a race of cave-dwellers would be found 

 in tliis region. As a rule the troglodyte affects climates which 

 are either very hot and rainless, as near the Red Sea, or coki, 

 as in the north of France. Moreaver, cave-dwellers do not, 

 even in our day, readily give up their cheap and confortable 

 abodes ; this may be seen throughout La Beance, and even at 

 Saint Cime, within an hom-' s railway-travel from Paris. Again, 

 the perpetuai infìltration of rain, which doubtless was more 

 abundant in the days before Istria-land was disforested, must 

 have made them damp and malarious, in fact very uncom- 

 fortable compared with those of the chalk. The essentially 

 temperate climate of the fair peninsula, also, would suggest 

 subaerial habitations and it offered peculiar facilities for buil- 

 ding; limestones whose naturai fracture saves the trouble of 

 blasting and cutting, and abundance of wood for the rude 

 wigwam. Finally, the large number of the pre-historic or 

 proto-historic „Castellieri", which may amount to a score in the 



