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2l2 A TOUR THROUGH
was no break or imperfection anywhere;
the night being so still that not a single
lamp was extinguished.
Opposite to the center of this great line
of light, there was a magnificent pavilion
erected for the viceroy and his company,
which consisted of the whole nobility of
Palermo: and on the front of this, at
some little distance in the sea, slood the
great fire-works, representing the front
of a palace, adorned with columns, arches,
trophies, and every ox-nament of archi-
tecture. All the chebecks, galleys, gal-
liots, and other shipping, were ranged
around this palace, and formed a kind of
amphitheatre in the sea, inclosing it in the
center.—These began the show by a dis-
charge of the whole of their artillery, the
sound of which, re-echoed from the moun-
tains, produced a very noble esfect; they
then played off a variety of water rockets,
and bombs of a curious conslruction, that
often
was no break or imperfection anywhere;
the night being so still that not a single
lamp was extinguished.
Opposite to the center of this great line
of light, there was a magnificent pavilion
erected for the viceroy and his company,
which consisted of the whole nobility of
Palermo: and on the front of this, at
some little distance in the sea, slood the
great fire-works, representing the front
of a palace, adorned with columns, arches,
trophies, and every ox-nament of archi-
tecture. All the chebecks, galleys, gal-
liots, and other shipping, were ranged
around this palace, and formed a kind of
amphitheatre in the sea, inclosing it in the
center.—These began the show by a dis-
charge of the whole of their artillery, the
sound of which, re-echoed from the moun-
tains, produced a very noble esfect; they
then played off a variety of water rockets,
and bombs of a curious conslruction, that
often