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30 fathoms, is separated from the neighbouring island of Lussin only by a 

 narrow cavaneUa, hardly 20 feet wide, and perhaps excavated by human hands, to 

 facilitate the passage from the Quarnero into the channel of Quarnerolo. Arbe, 

 abounding in olives, consists of several parallel ridges, separated by inlets of the 

 sea and low valleys. Pago, 40 miles in length, terminating in the north in a point 

 resembling the horns of a narwhal, is bounded by cliffs of eocene limestone, and 



Fig. 32. — Panorama of the Bocche di Cattaro. 



has in its centre longitudinal valleys gradually merging into inlets of the sea, 

 locally known as ralU, or valloni ; that is, "valleys." Premula, to the west of 

 Pago, is well known to mariners as the locality where the Adriatic current 

 bifurcates, one arm running north towards the Quarnero, Istria, and Trieste, the 

 other swerving round towards the coast of Emilia. The Isola Lunga, or Long 

 Island, together with Incoronata, stretches towards the south-west for 40 miles. 

 Brazzo, off Spalato, is the most massive of the Dalmatian islands. It resembles a 



