Retrofpeét of French Literature.—DMifcellancous: 
.Qvould confer a great fervice on the 
public by vifiting Iftria and Dalmatia, 
‘which contained certain’ remarkable 
monuments of antiquity, of which he 
ropofed to make drawings: 
. The fedu&ive account which Caffas 
prefented by anticipation relative to 
the pleafures likely to be derived from 
duch a journey, ‘engaged feveral’of his 
friends to accompany him ; but they 
were foon difheartened by the dangers 
and fatigues incident to fuch an under- 
taking, fo that M.Grafpin, an advo- 
cate, and a man of letters, was the only 
‘ane who did not at laft abandon him. 
The town and neighbourhood of 
Pola for 2 confiderable time occupied 
the crayons of Caffas, and furnifhed 
him with a variety of defigns, which 
kaye. been engraved for this work.— 
‘Some ruins there have either acquired 
or retained the name of the palace of 
Julia, who js fuppofed by the author to 
be Julia Donina, the wite of Septimus 
Severus, while the tower of Orlando 
zs thought to have been thus defignat- 
ed after the hero of: Ariofto. Zara, 
formerly the refidence of the Provedi- 
tor-general of Dalmatia, pofleties but 
few remains of its former grandeur ; 
its ancient amphitheatre was demolifh- 
ed on purpofe to fupply materials for 
the fortifications, and the place where 
it formerly ftood is at prefent occupied 
by a half-moon ‘battery. The beft- 
referved monument to be found there 
as the triumphal arch, which now forms 
the gate called the San-Gringona, 
leading tothe harbour. 
The ruins of ‘Nona, in this neigh- 
bourhood, prefent a rich feaft to the 
antiquary, and Doétor Danieli has not 
only. decorated his houfe with the 
{poils,' but is aétually furrounded by 
monuments of Roman grandeur. He 
pofiefles four colofial ftatues, a fine col- 
Jeétion of medals, three ‘fragments of 
Grecian tables, containing decrees, be- 
fides an in{cription which the Eleventh 
Legion confecrated to Tiberius, 
After contemplating thefe, ‘the tra- 
vellers vilited Sebenico, on purpofe to 
make a drawing of the famous cafcade 
of Kerka, of which ‘we are prefented 
with two fine views. Spalanto offered 
an abundance of materials, and the de- 
figns made there conititute one of the 
the moft important portions of the 
work. Between this place and Salona 
they difcovered feveral arcades of the 
aqueduct’ which~conveyed the water 
thither, and it muit have been of a 
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prodigious extent, as it reached all the 
way froma mountain of confiderable 
fize to a valley at fome diftance. ‘This 
wfeful and magnificent building is dif. 
tinctly feen above the tops of the trees 
during its courfe through a°* thick 
wood. From Salona Caflas repaired 
to Cettina, now denominated Vélika 
Gubowiza, where his pencil was em> 
ployed in the defcription of the crand 
cafcade, after which he retarned to 
Triefte. "i Laer onal 
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