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SICILY AND MALTA. S7
in their deserts and ices, of which there is
a greater variety than I have seen in any-
other country. They are very temperate
with regard to wine; though, smce we
have taught them our method of toasting
ladies they are fond of, and of hob and
nobing with their friends, ringing the two
glasses together : this secial practice has
animated them so much, that they have
been sometimes led to drink a greater quan-
tity than they are accustomed to ; and they
often reproach us with having made them
drunkards. In their ordinary living they
are very frugal and temperate; and from
the sobriety we have seen here, we are now
more persuaded that the elevated situation
of Agrigentum must be one great cause os
its drunkenness.
The Sicilians have always had the cha-
racter of being very amorous, and sinely
not without reason. The whole nation are
poets, even the peasants; and a man {lands
G 4 a poor
in their deserts and ices, of which there is
a greater variety than I have seen in any-
other country. They are very temperate
with regard to wine; though, smce we
have taught them our method of toasting
ladies they are fond of, and of hob and
nobing with their friends, ringing the two
glasses together : this secial practice has
animated them so much, that they have
been sometimes led to drink a greater quan-
tity than they are accustomed to ; and they
often reproach us with having made them
drunkards. In their ordinary living they
are very frugal and temperate; and from
the sobriety we have seen here, we are now
more persuaded that the elevated situation
of Agrigentum must be one great cause os
its drunkenness.
The Sicilians have always had the cha-
racter of being very amorous, and sinely
not without reason. The whole nation are
poets, even the peasants; and a man {lands
G 4 a poor