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3io A TOUR THROUGH
no city ever did before or since, sseets and
armies that were the terror of the world.
This haughty and magnificent city, reduced
even below the consequence of the most:
insignificant burgh !—" Sic transit gloria
" mundi."—I have not even been able to
procure a table to write upon, but by way
of succedaneum am obliged to lay a form
over the back of two chairs.—We have
got into the most: wretched hovel you can
conceive, and the most dirty; but what is
still word os all, we can find nothing to
eat; and if we had not brought some cold
fowls along with us, we might have
starved.
The heat has been considerably greater
here than at Catania. The thermometer is
just now at 78.—There is an old remark
made on the climate of this place by some
of the ancients; which is still said fo hold
good: That at no season, the sun has ever
been
no city ever did before or since, sseets and
armies that were the terror of the world.
This haughty and magnificent city, reduced
even below the consequence of the most:
insignificant burgh !—" Sic transit gloria
" mundi."—I have not even been able to
procure a table to write upon, but by way
of succedaneum am obliged to lay a form
over the back of two chairs.—We have
got into the most: wretched hovel you can
conceive, and the most dirty; but what is
still word os all, we can find nothing to
eat; and if we had not brought some cold
fowls along with us, we might have
starved.
The heat has been considerably greater
here than at Catania. The thermometer is
just now at 78.—There is an old remark
made on the climate of this place by some
of the ancients; which is still said fo hold
good: That at no season, the sun has ever
been