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Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado (1887)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Oxford, Clarendon Press · leaf 202

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A Imissa . 1 68 [Ch.' XV. full, and nearly level with the swampy pastures on either side, which makes a sudden turn just above the town and is lost to view in a tremendous ravine which seems to afford barely space for its exit. The higher summits of Mossor behind were veiled … Fig. 52- in clouds, and deep purple shadows wrapped the hollow where the river lay hid in a mysterious gloom. It woidd be difficult for a romancist to picture to himself a scene better fitted for the home of pirates and freebooters ; the situation is wilder even than that of Segna in the Quarnero,…

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