Roman Antiquities in Carinthia

The antiquities of Carinthia have been greatly neglected ; as far as I am aware, no English or French author has given a detailed description of them.At first this seems strange, the province being within one day's journey from Vienna, and separated only by the Carnic or Julian Alps from Venetia.But the causes 01 neglect are not far to seek.Carinthia is remote from London and Paris. 1 Tirol, easily accessible, presents greater attractions to the mineralogist and geologist; while the traveller, seeking to gratify his love for the picturesque, finds more to astonish him in the lofty peaks and serrated ridges of the Dolomite Mountains than in the tranquil scenery, grand and pleasing though it is, that surrounds the Valley of the Drave. 2 Besides, there are here no Roman buildings still standing above ground-no temples, amphitheatres and aqueducts as we see them in Southern France. 3 jSTor is the district intimately connected, as Britain, 1 Moreover, railway communication with Klagenfurt, the capital of the province, was opened much later than in many parts of Europe.2 Murray's Handbook for South, Germany, Edit.1890, Part II, p. 460, " sharp peaks and tooth-like ridges, rising many thousand feet into the air, . . .present the most picturesque outline."The Dolomite Mountains, by Gilbert and Churchill, 8vo, 1864; see especially Chap.XII: Tour through Carinthia-.Zollleld, Klagenfurt, &c.These writers are not antiquarian specialists, but they give some information which the archseologist may find useful, v. Chap.XII, Gail Thai, p. 173, seqq., Auf del• Plecken on the Italian frontier-Roman road from Lienz (improperly identified with Leontium) to Aquileia-an important route of commerce, which was the portal into Venetia

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