3-082-279 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ten Days in Bosnia: the source of the Bouna, 1895. 'Herzegovina is lovely chiefly in its barren beauties...For many hours the line winds amid rugged mountains, snow-capped at this time, bare and mightily barren in the months of summer. The luxuriant vegetation of Bosnia quickly gives place to the karst formations, to the cuspated limestone crags, to the valleys of iron-like rock. Through the interstices of the lesser hills you may look to other ranges, ever devoid of tree or shrub; to vast dome-shaped heights, burning like glasses in the full heat of the sun; even to fleecy bands of mountains whose summits can scarce be distinguished from the rolling white vapours about them...you [may] say of the passes of Herzegovina that there is nothing like to them in Europe. Their very baldness is their charm ; their precipices are awe - inspiring, in tire correct meaning of the word; their glades and valleys, and chasms and defiles seem so many havens of unbroken solitude...Nothing more desolate, nothing in its own way more grand, could the tourist find'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.