TUESDAY, FEBEUAEY 2nd. 



A Lecture entitled "An Autumn Holiday Tour" was delivered 

 lay the Kev. Brooke Lambert, M.A., B.C.L., Vicar of Greenwicli, 

 Vice-President of the Association, 



The Lecturer be.sian by stating that he doesn't believe in two 

 things — sunrises and Avaterfalls, — and that he never puts liinaself 

 (3ut of tlie way to see them. Last year he spent his holiday in 

 Dalmatia and other parts on the Coast of the Adriatic. He went 

 by the St. Gothard route (one of the most picturesque railways in 

 the world), passed through Venice in the dark, spent a day in 

 Trieste, and then went direct to Cattaro. The scenery on the 

 Dalmatian coast is very remarkable ; the coast dips abruptly into 

 the sea, and is sheltered by a long line of islands, reminding one 

 of a lake voyage. This part is interesting from the fact that to the 

 inhabitants of this district we owe the rolling back of the Turkish 

 irmption into Europe. Traces of the former glories of Venice are 

 found everywhere — in all the towns the Venetian Lion is found, 

 rampant, jubilant, quiescent, expectant. Passing down the coast 

 of Dalmatia we come to the curious Bay of Cattaro, remarkable for 

 the contests that have there taken place, and for the singular appear- 

 ance of the entrance to Montenegro. Antivari, pitched on a little 

 hill, is a ruined town which belongs no longer to the Turks, but to 

 the Montenegrins. St. Giovanni di Medua is on Turkish soil, and 

 here the Lecturer got into trouble about a pair of boot-trees. The 

 Scutari roads in this neighbourhood had been newly metalk^d, and 

 Avere very wretched. Itself it is one of the loveliest places in the 

 world : it lies at the end of a lake about thirty- six miles long, and 

 is embosomed in mountains. The dress of the Albanians is very 

 picturesque, every man has petticoats of white cotton plaited into 

 numerous folds. Like all Eastern towns, Scutari abounds in open 

 places and wretched streets. The bazaars are quaint, the mosques 

 picturesque. 



Passing on to Montenegro the Lecturer went in a kind of 

 flat-bottomed punt rowed by four men. Xature has denied to 

 ]\Iontenegro most of the good things which go to make the riches 

 of a country. The Lecturer thought it the stoniest territory he 



