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Novigrad can be reached by sea or by land. By sea is the longer but more interesting route. Leaving Zara we keep up the Zara channel till we reach the northernmost point of Dalmatian mainland at Brevilacqua. Rounding this, to our light opens the fiord in whose farthest recess lies Nona. We cross the mouth of the Nona fiord with our bow now set east, and passing headland fter headland through a maze of intricate channels hat recall Skye and the western islands of Scotland, e sail into the great and solemn Gulf of Starigrad, landlocked sea with desolate limestone shores, ominated to the east by the enormous and arid ass of the Velebit. Making now for the southern nd of this loch, we pass places whose names recall he rule of Venice and which were the scene of much ghting between the Republic and the Turk, Castel
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