[473] The Benedictine monastery, which still exists, is built on an island in a salt lake, or rather inlet, communicating with the open sea by a narrow channel.
[474] Romanin, Storia Documentata di Venezia, vol. viii., Appendix.
[475] Relatione dell’ Orribile Terremoto seguito nella Città di Ragusa, & altre della Dalmatia & Albania, Venice, 1667.
[476] Gelcich, 97.
[477] Rog., 1667, June 23, and Div. 1711, f. 58, dd. Feb. 3.
[478] Quoted by Gelcich, 98.
[479] The population of the island before the earthquake is said to have been 14,000, but this is probably an exaggerated estimate. It now barely supports 500.
[480] Gelcich, 98.
[481] Among the killed was George Crook, the Dutch ambassador to the Porte, and his family and four servants, who had arrived at Ragusa four days before the earthquake on their way to Constantinople; the rest of his suite, including Jakob Vandam, Dutch consul at Smyrna, were saved. Vandam wrote an account of this calamity in his Old and New State of Dalmatia.
[482] T. G. Jackson, Dalmatia, vol. ii. pp. 387-88.