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SICILY AND MALTA. 237
before we discovered the trick.—They now
insist upon it, that we are good Catholics,
for all this morning we had been bowing
to saints and angels.
A great silver box, containing the bones
of St. Rosolia, closed the proceshon. It
was carried by thirty-six of the moit re-
speclable burgesses of the city, who look
upon this as the greatest honour. The
archbishop walked behind it, giving his
benediction to the people as he palled.
No sooner had the proceshon finished
the tour of the great square, before the
pr£Etor's palace, than the fountain in the
center, one of the largest and finest in
Europe, was converted into a fountain of
fire; throwing it up on all sides, and
making a beautiful appearance. It only
lastcd for a few minutes, and was extin-
guished by a vast explosion, which con-
cluded the whole. As this was altogether
unexr
before we discovered the trick.—They now
insist upon it, that we are good Catholics,
for all this morning we had been bowing
to saints and angels.
A great silver box, containing the bones
of St. Rosolia, closed the proceshon. It
was carried by thirty-six of the moit re-
speclable burgesses of the city, who look
upon this as the greatest honour. The
archbishop walked behind it, giving his
benediction to the people as he palled.
No sooner had the proceshon finished
the tour of the great square, before the
pr£Etor's palace, than the fountain in the
center, one of the largest and finest in
Europe, was converted into a fountain of
fire; throwing it up on all sides, and
making a beautiful appearance. It only
lastcd for a few minutes, and was extin-
guished by a vast explosion, which con-
cluded the whole. As this was altogether
unexr