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SICILY AND MALTA. 25
have a better opportunity of judging whe-
ther it is still accompanied by its siller
vice.
The accounts that the old authors give
of the magnificence os Agrigentum are
amazing; though indeed there are none
of them that proclaim it in stronger terms
than the monuments that still remain.—
Diodorus says, the great vessels for hold-
ing water were commonly of silver, and
the litters and carriages for the most part
were of ivory richly adorned. He men-
tions a pond made at an immense expence,
full of fisth and of water-fowl, that in his
time was the great resort of the inhabitants,
on their festivals ; but he says, that even
then (in the age of Augustus) it was go-
ing to ruin requiring too great an expence
to keep it up. There is not now the
smallest vestige of it: But there is still to
be seen a curious spring of water that
throws up a kind of oil on its surface,
8 which
have a better opportunity of judging whe-
ther it is still accompanied by its siller
vice.
The accounts that the old authors give
of the magnificence os Agrigentum are
amazing; though indeed there are none
of them that proclaim it in stronger terms
than the monuments that still remain.—
Diodorus says, the great vessels for hold-
ing water were commonly of silver, and
the litters and carriages for the most part
were of ivory richly adorned. He men-
tions a pond made at an immense expence,
full of fisth and of water-fowl, that in his
time was the great resort of the inhabitants,
on their festivals ; but he says, that even
then (in the age of Augustus) it was go-
ing to ruin requiring too great an expence
to keep it up. There is not now the
smallest vestige of it: But there is still to
be seen a curious spring of water that
throws up a kind of oil on its surface,
8 which