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SICILY AND MALTA. 283
sion of their government, obliges them
sometimes to invent branches of commerce
that nature seems to have denied them, as
they are not allowed to enjoy those she has
bellowed.—The sugar-cane was very much
cultivated in this issand, but the duties
imposed were so enormous, that it has
been almost abandoned.—But their crops
of wheat alone, were they under a free
government, would soon be sufficient to
render this little nation one of the richest
and most ssourishing in the world ; for
even in the wretched state of cultivation
it is in at present, one good crop, I am
told, is sufficient to maintain the issand for
seven years. You will be a good deal sur-
prised, after this, to hear that the expor-
tation of this commodity has been pro-
hibited for these several years past; at
least to all such as are not able to pay most
exorbitantly for that privilege. The con-
sequence is, that corn has become a drug.
The common price of the salma, which is
two
sion of their government, obliges them
sometimes to invent branches of commerce
that nature seems to have denied them, as
they are not allowed to enjoy those she has
bellowed.—The sugar-cane was very much
cultivated in this issand, but the duties
imposed were so enormous, that it has
been almost abandoned.—But their crops
of wheat alone, were they under a free
government, would soon be sufficient to
render this little nation one of the richest
and most ssourishing in the world ; for
even in the wretched state of cultivation
it is in at present, one good crop, I am
told, is sufficient to maintain the issand for
seven years. You will be a good deal sur-
prised, after this, to hear that the expor-
tation of this commodity has been pro-
hibited for these several years past; at
least to all such as are not able to pay most
exorbitantly for that privilege. The con-
sequence is, that corn has become a drug.
The common price of the salma, which is
two