494 CLASSICAL TOUR Ch. XIV.
may therefore be allowed to hope that the Ge-
noese, though they are Ligurians t may be exempt
from the vices of their ancestors ; and that reli-
gion, liberty, and opulence may have eradicated
propensities which arose from ignorance, oppres-
sion, and misery.
Saturday, the eighteenth of September, we
took leave of our friends of the Medusa, saw the
ship under weigh, and then set out for Milan.
may therefore be allowed to hope that the Ge-
noese, though they are Ligurians t may be exempt
from the vices of their ancestors ; and that reli-
gion, liberty, and opulence may have eradicated
propensities which arose from ignorance, oppres-
sion, and misery.
Saturday, the eighteenth of September, we
took leave of our friends of the Medusa, saw the
ship under weigh, and then set out for Milan.