It may not be improper to observe, that if we except Bohemia, Moravia, the northern skirts of Austria, and a part of Hungary between the Teyss and the Danube, all the other dominions of the House of Austria were comprised within the limits of the Roman Empire.
Dalmatia, to which the name of Illyricum more properly belonged, was a long, but narrow tract, between the Save and the Adriatic.

The best part of the sea-coast, which still retains its ancient appellation, is a province of the Venetian state, and the seat of the little republic of Ragusa.

The inland parts have assumed the Sclavonian names of Croatia and Bosnia; the former obeys an Austrian governor, the latter a Turkish pacha; but the whole country is still infested by tribes of barbarians, whose savage independence irregularly marks the doubtful limit of the Christian and Mahometan power.

[80] [Footnote 80: A Venetian traveller, the Abbate Fortis, has lately given us some account of those very obscure countries.

But the geography and antiquities of the western Illyricum can be expected only from the munificence of the emperor, its sovereign.] After the Danube had received the waters of the Teyss and the Save, it acquired, at least among the Greeks, the name of Ister.