200 Drs Hoppe antZ Hoi’nschi]ch'’s Tour to the Coast of the 
honey colour, and foliated throughout with crystals. M. Bran- 
denbourg fetched also a smaller pair for us, as a remembrance to 
us of this interesting cavern, which indeed we have not yet vi- 
sited, and which we fear that want of time will now prevent our 
seeing. 
“ Hundsherg^ May 5. — This day was fixed with our friends 
Brandenbourg, Gerop, and Nauwerk, tobe employed in making 
an excursion of S stund to the distant ruins of Servolo. For 
this purpose, our companions came to us last night, slept here, 
and rose this morning as early as four o’clock. We proceeded, 
by a constant ascent, out of the valley towards the brook. In 
the hedges, and under the bushes, grew plentifully Asparagus 
officinalis and Tamus communis. This last was not in flower. 
We soon reached the road that leads to Fiume, but immediately 
quitting it, took that which conducted to Bitzmann, in which 
we found nothing that interested us. Thence we proceeded by 
the Karst to the remains of a Roman aqueduct, about a stund 
distant. The country here has the peculiar character of the 
Karst, being nothing but a series of barren limestone rocks, so 
hardened by the sun, that they are quite sonorous ; and, from 
their uniformly grey tint, and also their jagged outline, they ex- 
hibit such a dreary aspect that one might imagine that the 
Creator’s primeval curse had fallen most peculiarly on this dis- 
trict. In a valley above the aqueduct, where nought is visible 
but this unproductive waste of limestone, we contemplated with 
astonishment the country around us, on which, here and there 
alone, a starved plant is seen to spring up from the crevice of a 
rock, impelled by its own vitality : and we seemed to gaze with 
additional interest on the vegetation which gratified our sight, 
when we once more gained a space from whence we might be- 
hold the verdant coast In all this weary waste, not a single 
insect was to be met with. 
‘‘We now proceeded to Tolino, which is charmingly situated 
at the foot of the mountain whereoii stands the Castle of Servolo. 
On our way thither, we observed Aristolochia rotunda and A. 
clematitis growing plentifully under the hedge. The vegetation 
here was more luxuriant than on those limestone rocks in whose 
fissures we had, however, detected Plantago suhidata if^ 
Mentha Puleghm, ^Satvreja moittana.) and the broad-leaved 
