Note 485 — Chapter VI

The Recca, a river with a considerable current, has been satisfactorily identified with a stream flowing through the cave of Trebich, and with the Timavo—the Timavus of Virgil and the ancient geographers—which empties through several mouths into the Adriatic between Trieste and Aquileia. The distance from Trieste to a suitable point in the grotto of Trebich is thought to be less than three miles, and the difficulties in the way of constructing a tunnel do not seem formidable. The works of Schmidl, Die Höhlen des Karstes, and Der unterirdische Lauf der Recca, are not common out of Germany, but the reader will find many interesting facts derived from them in two articles entitled Der unterirdische Lauf der Recca, in Aus der Natur, xx, pp. 250-254, 263-266.