Excerpt from Recollections Abroad: During the Year 1790; Sicily and Malta I now enter upon a new field of inquiry, in teresting from its early cultivation and rich pro duce: a country, captivating to the eye, by its natural beauties, and to the mind, by the historical events Which it summons to the recollection; a. Country, which flourished in a high state of opu lence and prosperity, before Rome could boast iv even of its foundationfile and which gave birth and protection to a long train of the most illustrious warriors, legislators, and philosophers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.