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SICILY AND MALTA. 309
We are already cempletely tired of Sy-
racuse, which of all the wretched places
we have yet met with, is by many degrees
the most wretched: For besides that its
inhabitants are so extremely poor and beg-
garly, many of them are so over-run with
the itch, that we are under perpetual ap-
prehensions, and begin to be extremely
well satisfied that we could not procure
beds.—It is truly melancholy to think of
the dismal contrail that its former mag-
nificence makes with its present meanness.
The mighty Syracuse, the most opulent and
powerful of all the Grecian cities, which,
by its own proper strength alone, was able,
at different time6, to contend against all
the power of Carthage and of Rome:
—Which is recorded (what the force of
united nations is now incapable of) to
have repulsed sleets of two thousand sail,
and armies of two hundred thousand men j
and contained within its own walls, what
X 3 no
We are already cempletely tired of Sy-
racuse, which of all the wretched places
we have yet met with, is by many degrees
the most wretched: For besides that its
inhabitants are so extremely poor and beg-
garly, many of them are so over-run with
the itch, that we are under perpetual ap-
prehensions, and begin to be extremely
well satisfied that we could not procure
beds.—It is truly melancholy to think of
the dismal contrail that its former mag-
nificence makes with its present meanness.
The mighty Syracuse, the most opulent and
powerful of all the Grecian cities, which,
by its own proper strength alone, was able,
at different time6, to contend against all
the power of Carthage and of Rome:
—Which is recorded (what the force of
united nations is now incapable of) to
have repulsed sleets of two thousand sail,
and armies of two hundred thousand men j
and contained within its own walls, what
X 3 no