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ROUND ABOUT SPALATO
Salona from the Gulf of Spalato. On the highest point of this road stands the new museum in spacious and handsome housing. Under the assiduous care of Monsig. Bulié and his able coadjutor, Prof. Abramié, and thanks to their profound knowledge of, and competence in, all things Dalmatian, the museum has become the richest store-house for the illustration of Dalmatian history, from the pottery of Salona, through early Christian and early Croat monuments and inscriptions. As we crest the hill the landlocked sea of Salona opens out before us, stretching away to Traii in the west, with the island of Bua on our left-hand side and the fertile Riviera of the Seven Castles, backed by the barren Kozjak-wall of the Cabani range, on our right ; the pinnacle fortress of Klissa, silhouetted against the sky, towers up above the site of Salona, low down in the valley of the Jader; and behind us the desolate, scapegoat country of the Mossor (mom aureus ?) Massif. It is 8 glorious view, and one wonders why Diocletian did not choose it as the site of his villa-palace ; perhaps it was too near the city of Salona and his native district of Mravince and possible poor relations ; and then he could not have built right on and into the sea without building in the marshes