The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers.
[…]Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man / May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, / Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; / Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, / A bony heap, through ages to remain, / Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast / Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.
Between Ugljan and Dugi Otok lies the sheltered island of Iž, which is little more than two harbour settlements – Mali Iž and Veli Iž – connected by what passes for a road in these parts.
Suffice it to say, that no very pleasant feelings existed (as indeed may easily be believed) between the families of the massacrors, and the massacrees.