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SICILY AND MALTA. 235
ideas only by a ssow and regular kind
of progress ; and while we gain one, we
generally lose another, so that the fancy
seldom embraces the whole ;—but when a
thousand obje&s strike you at once, the
imagination is rilled and satisfied.
The great procession that closes the fes-
tival began at ten o'clock—It only differed
from other processions in this, that besides
all the priests, friars, and religious orders
of the city, there were placed at equal
distances from each other ten lofty ma-
chines made of wood and pasleboard, orna-
mented in an elegant manner, representing
temples, tabernacles, and a variety of beau-
tiful pieces of architecture.—These are fur-
nished by the different convents and re-
ligious fraternities, who vie with each
other in the richness and elegance of the
work. Some of them are not less than
sixty feet high.----They arc filled with
figures
ideas only by a ssow and regular kind
of progress ; and while we gain one, we
generally lose another, so that the fancy
seldom embraces the whole ;—but when a
thousand obje&s strike you at once, the
imagination is rilled and satisfied.
The great procession that closes the fes-
tival began at ten o'clock—It only differed
from other processions in this, that besides
all the priests, friars, and religious orders
of the city, there were placed at equal
distances from each other ten lofty ma-
chines made of wood and pasleboard, orna-
mented in an elegant manner, representing
temples, tabernacles, and a variety of beau-
tiful pieces of architecture.—These are fur-
nished by the different convents and re-
ligious fraternities, who vie with each
other in the richness and elegance of the
work. Some of them are not less than
sixty feet high.----They arc filled with
figures