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lately vindicated his nation from the imputation of 

 having no idiom peculiar to itself, and he demon- 

 strates that their language is entitled to rank with 

 the most copious living languages *. 



There is rarely to be seen now in Malta, the 

 beautiful species of spaniel, with a long silky fleece, 

 which goes by the name of the dog of Malta, and is 

 different from the hip-dog, with which it has been 

 confounded in books of natural history. The 

 breed of these little dogs seems to be almost ex- 

 tinct even at Malta, for you seldom meet with 

 one. But it was easy to procure there puppies of 

 a beautiful species of pointers. This calls to my 

 recollection that I no where saw so many and such 

 beautiful terriers, as in the streets of Genoa. 



The storm having spent itself, and the wind come 

 round, we left the port of Malta June 7th, 1777, 

 at three o'clock afternoon, and set sail for the island 

 of Candia. We had then in company a felucca, 

 of which M. Tott had made a purchase, for the 

 purpose of examining the coasts which the frigate 

 could not approach ; she was manned with Maltese 

 seamen. This was one of the ideas with which the 



* Vocabulary of the Maltese Language, by Antonio Va^sali, 

 printed at Rome in 1796. See the Kncyclop. Mag. interesting 

 and valuable collection, Vol. IV. of the second year, p. 139. 



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