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3o6 A TOUR THROUGH
LETTER XXXV.
Palermo, July 27th.
HE Sicilians are animated in conver-
sion, and their action for the most
part is so just and so expressive of their sen-
timents, that without hearing what is said,
one may comprehend the subjedl of their
discourse. We used to think the French
and Neapolitans great adepts in this art;
but they are much outdone by the Sicilians,
both in the variety and justness of their
gesticulation.
The origin of this custom they carry so
far back as the time of the earliest tyrants
of Syracuse, who, to prevent conspiracies,
had forbid their subje£ls, under the most
severe penalties, to be seen in parties talk-
ing together. This obliged them to invent
a me-
LETTER XXXV.
Palermo, July 27th.
HE Sicilians are animated in conver-
sion, and their action for the most
part is so just and so expressive of their sen-
timents, that without hearing what is said,
one may comprehend the subjedl of their
discourse. We used to think the French
and Neapolitans great adepts in this art;
but they are much outdone by the Sicilians,
both in the variety and justness of their
gesticulation.
The origin of this custom they carry so
far back as the time of the earliest tyrants
of Syracuse, who, to prevent conspiracies,
had forbid their subje£ls, under the most
severe penalties, to be seen in parties talk-
ing together. This obliged them to invent
a me-