80 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



Kogoznizza ? As a matter of fact, I fear I have 

 followed no distinct rule, except in the case of the 

 larger towns, which are only known to us in England 

 by their Italian names ; hut I have a strong feeling 

 that the Austrian Government should make up its 

 mind once for all, and, as far as an outsider can 

 see, it should be for the Slav language. Hard as 

 it may seem to replace Eagusa by Dubrovnik, the 

 Latin race has had its day in Dalmatia, and it was 

 a long one. 



When one has exhausted the relics of Eoman 

 days, there is little to be seen in Spalatro itself. 

 There are, however, plenty of excursions to be 

 made, and the particular one which I fancy no one 

 omits is that to the ruins of Salona. In olden 

 times Salona was the town, and it was not till the 

 Turks rendered it untenable that the inhabitants 

 bethought them of the solid walls of the old palace, 

 and, crowding into it, formed the modern city. 

 Those walls proved a nut the Turks never could 

 crack, and Spalatro remained " La Pucelle," as a 

 certain French city was till one Malbrook 

 happened to pass that way. It never was taken, 

 but, as a consequence of the treaty of Campoformio, 

 peacefully surrendered into Austrian hands, in 

 which, when the Napoleonic troubles were finally 

 settled, it remained. 



The interest of Salona is of course principally 

 archaeological, and neither of us can claim to be 



