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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 434

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Sebenico. 376 [Ch. IX. dug up with the name of Pansiana, queen of some kingdom hitherto not identified1. Zlarin is now famous for its coral and sponge fisheries. The coral is gathered by an ingenious dredge which is towed behind the vessels, with a heavy swinging weight to break the coral off, and… … low grey hills that fringe the shore. Leaving the open sea the steamer turns suddenly into a narrow tortuous channel, and emerges no less suddenly into a splendid inland haven to which there is only this one approach. On the further side is the city (Fig- 21), an imposing mass of picturesque old…

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