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SICILY AND MALTA. 3
Our first plan, was to go by land to
Regium, and from thence, cross over to
Messina; but on making exact inquiry,
with regard to the state of the country,
and method of travelling, we find that the
danger from the banditti in Calabria and
Apulia is so great, the accommodations so
wretched, and inconveniencies of every
kind so numerous, without any considera-
tion whatever to throw into the opposite
scale, that we soon relinquished that scheme;
and in spite of all the terrors of Scylla and
Charybdis, and the more real terrors of
sea sickness (the most formidable monster
of the three) we have determined to go by
water: And, that no time may be lost, we
have already taken our passage on board
an English ship, which is ready to sail with
the first fair wind.
Now, as this little expedition has never
been considered as any part of the grand
tour; and as it will probably present
B 2 many
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Our first plan, was to go by land to
Regium, and from thence, cross over to
Messina; but on making exact inquiry,
with regard to the state of the country,
and method of travelling, we find that the
danger from the banditti in Calabria and
Apulia is so great, the accommodations so
wretched, and inconveniencies of every
kind so numerous, without any considera-
tion whatever to throw into the opposite
scale, that we soon relinquished that scheme;
and in spite of all the terrors of Scylla and
Charybdis, and the more real terrors of
sea sickness (the most formidable monster
of the three) we have determined to go by
water: And, that no time may be lost, we
have already taken our passage on board
an English ship, which is ready to sail with
the first fair wind.
Now, as this little expedition has never
been considered as any part of the grand
tour; and as it will probably present
B 2 many
4