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CHAP. IV.]
MALTA
warm atmosphere. Asthma here breathes freely, and hectic
consumption preserves its beauty, but foregoes its victim. Sea-
bathing is continued through the winter. There are excellent
horses, and many places of interest to visit, exclusive of Crendi
and the Boschetto. There is an excellent garrison library,
besides a very curious and interesting collection of books, be-
longing to the Knights of the Order. The armory is not without
interest, though much inferior to what we might expect, where
all the new devices of armor must have been carried to perfec-
tion by steel-clad dandies, who had little else to think of. In
addition to these resources, there is an opera, very good yacht-
ing, sea-fishing, a little racing, very animated soldier-society
a most hospitable and courteous governor, an excellent clergy-
man, skilful medical men, and, above all, means of leaving the
island almost daily for all the shores of this bright sea, which
comprises every scene of paramount interest in the ancient
world.*
* Malta is about sixty miles in circumference, containing 130,000 inha-
bitants. It is composed principally of magnesian limestone, and, being
cultivated with great labor, produces oranges, cotton, indigo, saffron, sugar,
and large quantities of melons, grapes, and other fruit, in the soil of Sicily,
which has been carried hither. Corn is grown in sufficient quantities to
supply the island for six months ; the rest is imported. Game is supplied
by the little adjacent island of Comino. The population has nearly doubled
since the island came into British occupancy. The revenue derived from
the island is about £100,000, and the expenditure there about £SS,000,
exclusive, of course, of what the garrison and shipping expend. The
Emperor Charles V. presented the island to the Knights Hospitallers when
they were dispossessed of Rhodes
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MALTA
warm atmosphere. Asthma here breathes freely, and hectic
consumption preserves its beauty, but foregoes its victim. Sea-
bathing is continued through the winter. There are excellent
horses, and many places of interest to visit, exclusive of Crendi
and the Boschetto. There is an excellent garrison library,
besides a very curious and interesting collection of books, be-
longing to the Knights of the Order. The armory is not without
interest, though much inferior to what we might expect, where
all the new devices of armor must have been carried to perfec-
tion by steel-clad dandies, who had little else to think of. In
addition to these resources, there is an opera, very good yacht-
ing, sea-fishing, a little racing, very animated soldier-society
a most hospitable and courteous governor, an excellent clergy-
man, skilful medical men, and, above all, means of leaving the
island almost daily for all the shores of this bright sea, which
comprises every scene of paramount interest in the ancient
world.*
* Malta is about sixty miles in circumference, containing 130,000 inha-
bitants. It is composed principally of magnesian limestone, and, being
cultivated with great labor, produces oranges, cotton, indigo, saffron, sugar,
and large quantities of melons, grapes, and other fruit, in the soil of Sicily,
which has been carried hither. Corn is grown in sufficient quantities to
supply the island for six months ; the rest is imported. Game is supplied
by the little adjacent island of Comino. The population has nearly doubled
since the island came into British occupancy. The revenue derived from
the island is about £100,000, and the expenditure there about £SS,000,
exclusive, of course, of what the garrison and shipping expend. The
Emperor Charles V. presented the island to the Knights Hospitallers when
they were dispossessed of Rhodes
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