APPENDIX I. 



THE BORA, WHAT IT IS. 



It was not till the printed sheets of this volume 

 passed through my hands that I realized that, 

 although I had had a good deal to say therein 

 about the bora, I had never said what the bora 

 really is. 



In the first place, I am not very sure that I 

 know, often as I have experienced its effects. I 

 have spoken of it, as it is generally spoken of, as 

 a wind, but that I am told it is not. It certainly 

 does not blow from the same quarter in various 

 districts, as the only rule of its being apparently 

 is that its direction is invariably at right angles to 

 the principal mountains in the neighbourhood, 

 and as the trend of these in Dalmatia is generally 

 from north-west to south-east, the general quarter 

 from which the bora blows there is from the north- 

 east. 



Its range, roughly speaking, appears to be 

 limited to a strip of coast not fifty miles broad, 

 but extending in length from the extreme north of 



