[7] Travels through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, &c. Translated by Holcroft, vol. iv. p. 298.
[8] Quoted in Evans’s Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, vol. ii. p. 358.
[9] Swinburne’s Travels in the Two Sicilies, vol. iv. p. 148.
[10] Voyage Critique à l’Ætna, tom. i. p. 529.
[11] Vide the Letters appended to a View of the Present State of Italy, translated from the Italian, by Thomas Wright Vaughan, Esq., p. 70.
[12] “Olives and bread form the principal part of the food of the lower classes in Sicily, and oil is a necessary of life.”
[13] “About equivalent to ‘zounds’ and ‘gadzooks.’”
[14] View of Italy, ut supra, p. 79.
[15] It is calculated that 40,000 souls perished in this convulsion. In the greatest of all the Sicilian earthquakes, that of 1693, the earth shook but four minutes, and overthrew almost all the towns on the eastern side of the island.
[16] “Prettily pilfered,” says Lamb, “from the sweet passage in the Midsummer Night’s Dream, where Helena recounts to Hermia their school-days’ friendship:—