If you will tarry, holy Pilgrim.

But till the troops come by

I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd"

ALL'S WELL

THAT IS ALLL 4CT 3 SCENE 5

ILLYRIA.

THE name of Illyria had disappeared for many centuries from the number of European countries, when Napoleon, after the conclusion of peace at Vienna, in 1809, gave to several tracts of territory ceded by Austria, including Dalmatia, the name of the Illyrian Provinces.

Illyria is on the whole a mountainous country, but the coasts are partly low and sandy, and partly marshy, especially towards the west. On the west the bay of Trieste, and on the east that of Quarnero, run deep into the land, and form the great peninsula of Istria, the extreme point of which is Capo Promontore. In the circles of Villach and Clagenfurt the soil is good, and the valleys are in general fertile: these two circles would produce sufficient corn for the consumption of the inhabitants, if immense masses of rocks did not cover so much of the surface, and the elevation above the sea did not produce a temperature unfavourable to vegetation. The circles of Neustadtl, Adelsberg, and Laybach consist of rock, marshes, and sandy flats, and are unfruitful. The coast has a dry limestone soil, and in many parts suffers from a scarcity of water, but the vegetation is very luxuriant.

The most remarkable lake is that of Zirknitz, in the circle of Adelsberg, about three miles long, and from one and a half to two and a half wide, of which many wonderful stories are told, all originating in the fact that it is sometimes quite full to the brim, and at others dried up, and this without any regularity or regard to the season of the year; sometimes it does not dry up for years together. The climate of course varies in different parts. The lofty mountains covered with snow, which either never melts or only in the height of summer, cause the air to be rather sharp and raw in the circles of Villach and Clagenfurt; the vine does not thrive here. Though there are some persons afflicted with goître, the climate is on the whole healthy. It is much milder in the circles of Laybach, Adelsberg, and Neustadtl, where the vine, chestnut, and maize flourish. The government of Trieste has a hot climate; the vegetation is luxuriant, and the choicest fruit would succeed if the soil were good; for in the circle of Görz the mulberry-trees bear the winter very well, as do the olive and the orange in the territory of Trieste it is to be regretted that there is a deficiency of water. In the western parts on the coast the air is rendered extremely unhealthy by the exhalations from the lagoons.