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Excerpt from Dalmatia, Vol. 1 of 3: The Quarnero and Istria, With Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado
IT is not only now when Europe waits to know whether the war - cloud that threatens her will first burst in thunder on the Rhine or on the Danube, nor only in modern times since the Eastern question has arisen to vex politicians, that the attention of Englishmen has been engaged by the Balkan penin sula and the eastern sea-board of the Adriatic. English travellers were the first to make these countries and the monuments of art which they con tain known to western Europeans. George Wheler visited Spalato in 1675, and has left us the earliest description of the ruins of Diocletian's palace; Robert Adam's account of that building, published in 1764, is still the best; the antiquities of Pola were explored by Stuart in 1750, and splendidly illustrated in the fourth volume of the great work that goes by his name; Sir Gardner Wilkinson in 1848 published an excellent general account of Dal matia Montenegro and part of Herzegovina; Mr.
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