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SICILY AND MALTA. 353
few scattered trees, and about half a dozen
deer; but as this is the only thing like a
wood in the island, it is esteemed a very-
great curioiity. The palace is as little
worth seeing as the forest; though indeed
the prospett from the top of it is very fine.
The furniture is three or four hundred
years old, and in the most Gothick taste
that can be imagined : But indeed the grand
master seldom or never resides here.
The great source of water that supplics
the city of Valetta, takes its rise near to this
place ; and there is an aqueduct composed
of some thousand arches, that conveys it
from thence to the city. The whole of this
immense work was finiflied at the private
expence of one of the grand masters.
Not far from the old city there is a small
church, dedicated to St. Paul; and just by
the church, a miraculous statue of the saint
with a viper on his hand; supposed to be
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few scattered trees, and about half a dozen
deer; but as this is the only thing like a
wood in the island, it is esteemed a very-
great curioiity. The palace is as little
worth seeing as the forest; though indeed
the prospett from the top of it is very fine.
The furniture is three or four hundred
years old, and in the most Gothick taste
that can be imagined : But indeed the grand
master seldom or never resides here.
The great source of water that supplics
the city of Valetta, takes its rise near to this
place ; and there is an aqueduct composed
of some thousand arches, that conveys it
from thence to the city. The whole of this
immense work was finiflied at the private
expence of one of the grand masters.
Not far from the old city there is a small
church, dedicated to St. Paul; and just by
the church, a miraculous statue of the saint
with a viper on his hand; supposed to be
Vol. I. A a placed