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SICILY AND MALTA. 213
often bursf. below water. This continued
for half an hour, when in an instant,
the whole of the palace was beautifully
illuminated. This was the signal for the
{hipping to cease, and appeared indeed like
a piece of enchantment, as it was done
altogether instantaneoussy, and without the
appearance of any agent. At the same
time the fountains that were represented in
the court before the palace, began to spout
up fire, and made a representation of some
of the great jet cPeaus of Versailles and
Marly. As soon as these were extin-
guished, the court assumed the form of
a great parterre; adorned with a variety
of palm-trees of fire, interspersed with
orange-trees, flower-pots, vases and other
ornaments. On the extinguishing of these
the illumination of the palace was likewise
extinguished; and the front of it broke
out into the appearance of a variety of
suns, (tars, and wheels of fire, which in a
short time reduced it to a perfect ruin.
P 3 And
often bursf. below water. This continued
for half an hour, when in an instant,
the whole of the palace was beautifully
illuminated. This was the signal for the
{hipping to cease, and appeared indeed like
a piece of enchantment, as it was done
altogether instantaneoussy, and without the
appearance of any agent. At the same
time the fountains that were represented in
the court before the palace, began to spout
up fire, and made a representation of some
of the great jet cPeaus of Versailles and
Marly. As soon as these were extin-
guished, the court assumed the form of
a great parterre; adorned with a variety
of palm-trees of fire, interspersed with
orange-trees, flower-pots, vases and other
ornaments. On the extinguishing of these
the illumination of the palace was likewise
extinguished; and the front of it broke
out into the appearance of a variety of
suns, (tars, and wheels of fire, which in a
short time reduced it to a perfect ruin.
P 3 And