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SICILY AND MALTA. 289
and has written several treatises on the an-
tiquities of Sicily.
Of the four cities that composed the an-
cient Syraeuse, there remains only Ortigia,
by much the smallest, situated in the issand
of that name. It is about two miles round,
and suppoicd to contain about 14000 inha-
bitants. The ruins of the other three,
Tycha, Acraclina, and Neapoli, are com-
puted at twenty-two miles in circumference,
but almost the whole of this space is now
converted into rich vineyards, orchards,
and corn-sields; the walls of these are in-
deed everywhere built with broken marbles
full of engravings and inseriptions, but
most of them defaced and spoiled. The
principal remains of antiquity are a theatre
and amphitheatre; many sepulchres, the
Latomic, the Catacombs, and the famous
ear of Dionysius, which it was impossible
to destroy.—The Latomic now makes a no^-
Vol. I. U ble
and has written several treatises on the an-
tiquities of Sicily.
Of the four cities that composed the an-
cient Syraeuse, there remains only Ortigia,
by much the smallest, situated in the issand
of that name. It is about two miles round,
and suppoicd to contain about 14000 inha-
bitants. The ruins of the other three,
Tycha, Acraclina, and Neapoli, are com-
puted at twenty-two miles in circumference,
but almost the whole of this space is now
converted into rich vineyards, orchards,
and corn-sields; the walls of these are in-
deed everywhere built with broken marbles
full of engravings and inseriptions, but
most of them defaced and spoiled. The
principal remains of antiquity are a theatre
and amphitheatre; many sepulchres, the
Latomic, the Catacombs, and the famous
ear of Dionysius, which it was impossible
to destroy.—The Latomic now makes a no^-
Vol. I. U ble