A description of Malta, with a sketch of its history and that of its fortifications, tr. from the Ital., with notes, by an officer resident on the island - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ...of that language, has entirely obliterated the national. The Maltese compositions arc nathing at present but bad imitations of the Italian, without originality of ftile, or peculiarity of expression, the' attempts of some female ihiprovitatdri, who on f.ftiva!s gain something by the talent of repeating extemporary verses, which happily are soon forgotten..1, CUM ATS.. The account of this article will become more iut'erefting to1 the jeaaer'when if is known, that it is nnit written from the simple obs£rvations of a traveller,, but is the rfesult of repeated experiments of a learned a ituralift II Signor ComhiaudantedeDoIomiau, who kindly furnished me with the account.of the Natural Hiftory of the Island, and has permitted me in this. iaftance tocop his own words. From tie Experiments of Signor de t)olosnitut dated the Winter.The Thermometer of Ete.amur is generally during the Summer in Malta below the 15 degree, and hardly ever abore the i8th.. In Winter it is very rarely belorvthe 8th degree from the freezing point. The time when the heat or eoIJ is moll particularly felt, ii not yrhenihe Thermometer marks either of the extreme points of our our temperature J there is alrnotya continual contraft. between our sensations, and the instruments which measure th£ true temperature of the air, between the heat which is ft'tk add that which' is real. 331"' ' EIuJS»r Xi1 n:«W.aoliiz tisii'ia zi Ji riafji./ rlt',v v il The directions,pf.the TVltldsj and their variations, produce an lnftanta'ieons change from hot to cold, and vice vers'k. The wind from the north or northweft always occasious cold, and that from the sou.th,_h.eat. 'The ijtit'vyeflj'vihd gives the';, greaieltjSegre 01": clearness t»; the air,"that from the wortheal...