CHAPTER XXIX. ISTRIA, AND ITS HlSTORY. The triangular peninsula of Istria is divided from the Alps by a band of stony desert almost unique in Europe. This district of the Carso, Carsia, or Karst, is said to have been covered till modern times by oak forests, which have been destroyed by the fires…
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