Salona

"Spálato stands on a long and wide promontory of rising ground, which forms one side of the deep gulf within which Salona was placed; the carriage-road crossing this promontory comes down upon the bank of the ancient river Iader (now Jadera), very near its mouth. The views, from the moment one has attained the low heights behind Spálato, are charming; Salona lies in the vale below; […]. 

Salona was placed on gently-rising slopes facing the south and the west; it was a very large and splendid city, and its ruins cover a vast extent of ground: the greater part of them have been uncovered by order of the Emperor Francis of Austria. Miserable vines are grown in the oncestately palace-yards, and struggle over the broken walls, and in the area of the too-famous amphitheatre corn is now peacefully growing. Here a few arches and some broken seats are all the remains that strike the eye; but I puzzled over a number of small wedge-shaped spaces, divided by very massive walls, and wondered what they could be, till, observing their proximity to the area, I saw clearly that they had been the cells for the wild beasts and the prisoners. My thoughts went back to the gloomy caverns of the Bethlehem hills, where St. Jerome passed the latter years of his life; and I could not help fancying the terrible enthusiasm and passionate indignation with which the mind of the historian-saint must have brooded over the bloody massacres, done in the Salona of his native land, of the humble followers of the meek Babe of Bethlehem.

There are also remains of baths, with coarse mosaic floors, a great many marble columns, some of them fluted, marble-lined baths, and apartments for bathers. The fountain is choked up, but the spot is picturesque. The walls surrounding the city, the gates, and some of the paved streets (the latter marked with wheel-ruts) have been laid bare. But perhaps the most interesting object among these lesser remains is the fine aqueduct which brought water from the mountains to Salona, and was afterwards continued to Spálato. Unfortunately it has long been in ruins" (pp. 229-230).