Adriatic , and the Mountains of Carniola, Carinthia , fyc. 325 
Gradiska, we entered it, and were well attended to by our live- 
ly hostess, and her still more agreeable daughters, which was very 
pleasant, after a walk of seven hours. 
“ Hundsherg , by Trieste , March 20. — The road passes on 
the right from Gradiska, by Montfalcone and Duino to Trieste, 
and is about eight hours ; but as we wished to take Gortz in the 
way, we turned to the left, and made a circuit of three hours. 
The country at first was level, and the ground stony. We ob- 
served Crocus vernus , and Brassica Napus in flower. Just be- 
fore reaching Gortz, where the Isonso flows, the country becomes 
somewhat mountainous, and the hills are clothed with brush- 
wood, where there might be employment for the botanist. 
“ At Gortz the German is much spoken, but the country 
people use the language of Carinthia. From Gortz to Duino 
(five long hours), is nothing but barren soil, every where stony, 
and with large lumps of rock lying scattered in all directions ; 
not the least trace of vegetation. It was not till we reached 
Duino, that we could meet with any botanical fare. Here the 
sea had considerably encroached upon the land, which, for a 
great extent, was intersected with brooks, forming a wet soil, 
and covered with rushes. This is the place celebrated in Schra- 
der’s Flora Germanica for rare Cyperaceoe ; such as Cyperus 
australis , esculentus , longus , Monti , Scirpus littoralis , &c. Now, 
however, nothing was to be seen of these plants ; yet it gave us 
pleasure to be able to visit the place where they grew. Our zeal 
was better rewarded in an adjoining wood. Ulmus campestris 
was in flower ; and what was remarkable, we found only female 
inflorescence. Here was also Quercus Ilex , not yet in flower, 
forming not large, but bushy trees; its outline resembling a clip- 
ped Yew, or a Lombardy Poplar with its head cut off. We 
now soon came in view of the Adriatic. Still the barren soil 
(Karsch) continued to Duino, and even to Santa Croce. Near 
Prosecko we came into a 66 pays de connaissance.” We saluted 
Contobello, admiring the fine view which it afforded us of the 
ocean ; and, after a walk of twelve hours, arrived late in the even- 
ing at our old quarters at Hundsberg. 
u Hundsberg , March 21 st. — Thus terminated our little land 
and water excursion. We have seen Venice, — a city unique in 
its kind, and many other interesting places ; and have traversed 
