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SICILY AND MALTA. 213
It was with a mixture both of pleasure
and pain, that we quitted this awful scene.
But the wind had risen very high, and
clouds began to gather round the moun-
tain : In a short time they formed like an-
other heaven below us, and we were in
hopes of seeing a thunder-storm under our
feet: A scene that is not uncommon in
these exalted regions, and which I have
already seen on the top of the high Alps;
but the clouds were soon dispelled again
by the force of the wind, and we were
disappointed in our expectations,
I had often been told of the great effect
produced by discharging a gun on the top
of high mountains. I tried it here, when
we were a good deal surprised to find, that
instead of increasing the lound, it was al-
most reduced to nothing. The report was
not equal to that of a pocket-pislol: We
compared it to the stroke of a stick on a
P 3 door;
It was with a mixture both of pleasure
and pain, that we quitted this awful scene.
But the wind had risen very high, and
clouds began to gather round the moun-
tain : In a short time they formed like an-
other heaven below us, and we were in
hopes of seeing a thunder-storm under our
feet: A scene that is not uncommon in
these exalted regions, and which I have
already seen on the top of the high Alps;
but the clouds were soon dispelled again
by the force of the wind, and we were
disappointed in our expectations,
I had often been told of the great effect
produced by discharging a gun on the top
of high mountains. I tried it here, when
we were a good deal surprised to find, that
instead of increasing the lound, it was al-
most reduced to nothing. The report was
not equal to that of a pocket-pislol: We
compared it to the stroke of a stick on a
P 3 door;