i;6 Sir wilxiam Hamilton’s Ac. count of 
March was inconflderable.; but, from the barracks having been 
ill-eonftrubted, and many ikuated in a very confined un whole- 
lome fpot, an epidemical d iforder had taken place, and carried 
off many, and was dill in fatal three whilff I was there, in 
fpite of the wife endeavours of government to flop its pro- 
grels- I fear, as the heats increafe, the fame misfortune 
will attend many parts of the unfortunate Calabria, as alfo the 
*city of Medina. The inhabitants of Pizzo teemed to me to 
have habituated .themfelves already to their prefent inconve- 
nient manner of living, and {hops of every kind were opened 
in the ftreets of the barracks, which, except tome few, are 
hut poorly conffrubted. -I was allured here, that the volcano 
of Stromboli, which is oppoiite, and in full view ..of, this 
•town, and at the diftance of about fifty miles, had i'moked 
lefs, and thrown up a lefs quantity of inflamed matter during 
the earthquakes than it had done for feme years pafl: ; that 
•flight fhoqks continued to he felt daily -; and the night I flept 
here, on board the Speronara drawn on fhore, I was awakened 
with a fmart one, which deemed to lift up the bottom of the 
boat, but it was not attended with any fubterraneous noife. 
My fervants, in the other boat, felt the fame. The next day I 
ordered my boats to proceed to Reggio, and 1 went oil horfe- 
back to Monteleone, about fix miles from Pizzo, up hill, on a 
road of loofe flones and cLay, fcarcely paflable in this feafon, 
but through the moft beautiful and fertile country I ever be- 
held : .a perfebt garden of olive-trees, mulberry-trees, fruit- 
trees, and vines ; and under thefe trees the richeft crops of 
corn or lupins, beans or other vegetables, which feemed to 
thrive perfeblly, though under a thick fhade. This is the ftile 
of the whole plain of Monteleone, except that here and there 
Are vafl: woods of oak and olive-trees mixed, and the olive- 
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