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CITTA VECCIIIA.
was not likely to make him better pleased with
them than he would otherwise have been, takes an
affecting leave of them in the following lines :—
" Adieu ! yo cursed streets of stairs ;
How surely he who mounts you swears I"
In the afternoon, after our arrival in Valetta, wo
visited the church of St John (San Giovanni),
where we saw a great abundance of " gingerbread-
work," many tolerable pictures, and a few pretty
good ones. Our conductor informed us that, before
Malta was taken by the French under Bonaparte,
this church was exceedingly rich, and that it had
been plundered by the conquerors of gold and
silver ornaments, images, &c, to the amount of
several millions. Many of the images which were
of gold or silver, have been replaced by those
of bronze, or other baser metal.
The next day we took a cavriage-ride to Citta
Vecchia (Old Town), the site of which appears to
have been occupied by a city, many hundred years
previous to the Christian era, and perhaps two
thousand years before the present capital was
founded by La Valette. Here is the celebrated
grotto of St. Paul. The appstle is supposed to have
made this cavern his abode, during his sojourn of
three months in the island of Malta (Melita). Our
CITTA VECCIIIA.
was not likely to make him better pleased with
them than he would otherwise have been, takes an
affecting leave of them in the following lines :—
" Adieu ! yo cursed streets of stairs ;
How surely he who mounts you swears I"
In the afternoon, after our arrival in Valetta, wo
visited the church of St John (San Giovanni),
where we saw a great abundance of " gingerbread-
work," many tolerable pictures, and a few pretty
good ones. Our conductor informed us that, before
Malta was taken by the French under Bonaparte,
this church was exceedingly rich, and that it had
been plundered by the conquerors of gold and
silver ornaments, images, &c, to the amount of
several millions. Many of the images which were
of gold or silver, have been replaced by those
of bronze, or other baser metal.
The next day we took a cavriage-ride to Citta
Vecchia (Old Town), the site of which appears to
have been occupied by a city, many hundred years
previous to the Christian era, and perhaps two
thousand years before the present capital was
founded by La Valette. Here is the celebrated
grotto of St. Paul. The appstle is supposed to have
made this cavern his abode, during his sojourn of
three months in the island of Malta (Melita). Our