A Hand Book or Guide for Strangers Visiting Malta

by Thomas Macgill

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ISBN-13:	9781016319706
Publisher:	Legare Street Press
Publication date:	10/27/2022
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.35(d)

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CHAPTER IX. There are two ways, by which we can leave Valletta, to visit the eastern parts of the Island; the one is, by descending by the Marina Gate, and passing through the busy scenes of active life on the mole, leading to the head of the great harbour; not seldom enlivened by the chearing song of the mariner, watted | on the breeze: the other passage, is by Port Bomb, where, after a short distance on the high road, a branch, conducts on the sea side, at the extremity of the glacis. On reaching the embanking works of Mr Zammif, a road, over bridges, crosses the Marsh to the once sickly and deserted village of Paulo, (now rendered healthy through the exertions of Captain Hunn, and the profitable undertaking, we have just alluded to); thence to the Casals of Tarscein, Zabar, Hasiak, and Zeitun, finally to the port of Marsa-Scirocco. On the right of the road opposite Zammit's first embankment stands a hillock called Cor- tln, -which formerly belonged to the Jesuits.Here, about the middle of the last century, were discovered the foundations of an extensive edifice, of very great antiquity; the Grand Master Pinto caused them to be excavated. It is asserted by the native antiquarian Barbaro that this building had, in its origin, been Phoenician, re-edified by the Greeks, and again by the -Romans. It is presumed, they were store houses, into which the Phoenician navigators deposited their rich merchandise during the winter months, and before proceeding on their spring voyages. Here were also -places for depositing the remains of their dead; in some subterranean excavations, were found curious vases filled with human ashes. Farther on, advancing through the worlcs of Zammit, a roadto the left, leads to Casal Luca on the hill, and from thence to the villages of Gudia, Kren...