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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 269

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A rbe. 2 37 Ch. XXYIII.] as can cling to the face of the rock or find hold for its roots in the crevices. The old town walls that crown the cliff seem to grow out of it, so that it is hard to say where art begins to supersede nature, while above them the four ancient campaniles rise in stately… … from orange almost to flame colour. The sea lay like a sheet of glass below without even a ripple on the shore, and the long rocky islands of Dolin and Pago changed, as do all these naked Dalmatian hills, to the most exquisite colours under the evening light. From the cliffs below ascended at…

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