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SICILY AND MALTA. 169
They are esteemed a moll effectual remedy
against the plague, and have often pre-
served them from that satal distemper.
The saint gained so much credit, in saving
them from the last plague of Messina,
although it was at two hundred miles
distance, that they have, out of gratitude,
erected a noble monument to her.—St.
Agatha did as much for Catania, but that
city has not been so generous to her.—
The other riches of this church consist
principally in some bones of St. Peter, and
a whole arm of St. John the Baptist.—
There is likewise a jaw-bone of prodi-
gious efficacy; and some other bones of
lelser note.—it contains some things of
smaller consequence, which, however, are
not altogether without their merit. The
monuments of their Norman kings, several
of whom lie buried here, are of the finefl:
porphiry, some of them near seven hundred
years old, and yet of very tolerable work-
mansnip. Opposite to these, there is a
taber-
They are esteemed a moll effectual remedy
against the plague, and have often pre-
served them from that satal distemper.
The saint gained so much credit, in saving
them from the last plague of Messina,
although it was at two hundred miles
distance, that they have, out of gratitude,
erected a noble monument to her.—St.
Agatha did as much for Catania, but that
city has not been so generous to her.—
The other riches of this church consist
principally in some bones of St. Peter, and
a whole arm of St. John the Baptist.—
There is likewise a jaw-bone of prodi-
gious efficacy; and some other bones of
lelser note.—it contains some things of
smaller consequence, which, however, are
not altogether without their merit. The
monuments of their Norman kings, several
of whom lie buried here, are of the finefl:
porphiry, some of them near seven hundred
years old, and yet of very tolerable work-
mansnip. Opposite to these, there is a
taber-