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notice; because hereabouts might have been 
one of the outworks of the city, or an arch 
covering the /^a Sacra. We now entered the 
Arracovia. y'ic\\ lands of Arracovla, full of the neatest vine- 
vineyards yards, cultlvatcd iu the hio:hest order, and 
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nassui. seeming to extend over the mountain without 
any limitation, so as to cover all its sides and 
acclivities ; and actually rising into parts of it 
so steep and elevated, that they would not 
have been tenable but for the industry of 
the inhabitants; who have built walls to pro- 
tect them from torrents, and buoyed up the 
soil by means of terraces, to prevent its 
being washed away. The finest vineyards upon 
the banks of the Rhine are not managed with 
greater skill and labour than those of Arracovia, 
upon the south side of Parnassus. The land is 
most carefully weeded ; and it is kept so clean 
and free from rubbish, that the stones are col- 
lected and placed in heaps ; a little hollow 
space being left around each vine, to collect 
the moisture. The plants are all of them old 
stocks, from which they suffer only one scion 
to sprout for the year, and this is afterwards 
pruned again. The wine from these vineyards 
Prospect is excellent. The view throughout this journey, 
of all the Plain of Salona, and of the Bay, 
backed by the mountainous district of Achaia in 
