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3+2 A TOUR THROUGH
The number of souls in Palermo are
computed at about 150,000. Those of
the whole island, by the last numeration,
amounted to 1,123,163 ; of which num-
ber there are about 50,000 that belong to
the different monasteries and religious or-
ders. The number of houses are com-
puted at 268,120, which makes betwixt
five and six to a house.
The great Handing commodity of Sicily,
which has ever constituted the riches of the
island, was their crops of wheat; but they
cultivate many other branches of com-
merce, though none that could bear any
proportion to this, were it under a free
government, and exportation allowed.
Their method of preserving their grain
will appear somewhat lingular to our far-
mers : instead of exposing it, as we do, to
the open air, they are at the greatess pains
to exclude it entirely from it.—In. many
places, where the soil is dry, particularly
near
The number of souls in Palermo are
computed at about 150,000. Those of
the whole island, by the last numeration,
amounted to 1,123,163 ; of which num-
ber there are about 50,000 that belong to
the different monasteries and religious or-
ders. The number of houses are com-
puted at 268,120, which makes betwixt
five and six to a house.
The great Handing commodity of Sicily,
which has ever constituted the riches of the
island, was their crops of wheat; but they
cultivate many other branches of com-
merce, though none that could bear any
proportion to this, were it under a free
government, and exportation allowed.
Their method of preserving their grain
will appear somewhat lingular to our far-
mers : instead of exposing it, as we do, to
the open air, they are at the greatess pains
to exclude it entirely from it.—In. many
places, where the soil is dry, particularly
near