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is remarkable, belongs to a gentleman whofe Chriftiati name is 
Agamemnon. The beauty of the agrume (the general name 
of all kind of orange, lemon, cedrate, and bergamot-trees) is 
not to be defcribed ; the foil being fandy, the expofition warm, 
and command of water, a clear rivulet being introduced at 
pleafure in little channels to the foot of each tree, is the rea- 
fon of the wonderful luxuriancy of thefe trees. Don Aga- 
memnon allured me, it was a bad year when he did not gather 
from his garden (which is of no great extent) 170,000 lemons, 
200,000 oranges (which 1 found as excellent as thofe of 
Malta), and bergamots enough to produce 200 quarts of the 
elfence from their rinds. There is another lingularity in thefe 
gardens, as I was allured, every fig-tree affords two crops of 
fruit annually ; the firftin June, the fccond in Augulf. But to 
return to my fubjeft, from which my attention was frequently 
called away by the extraordinary and uncommon beauty and 
fertility of this rich province ; I arrived about fun -let at Reg- 
gio, which I found lefs damaged than I expected, though not 
a houfe in it is habitable or inhabited, and all the people, live in 
barracks or tents; but after having been feveral days in the plain, 
where every building is levelled to the ground, a houfe with 
a roof, or a church with a fteeple, was to me a new and refrelh- 
ing objevfl. The inhabitants of the whole country, that has been 
fo feverely affiidted with earthquakes, feem, however, to have fo 
great a dread of going into a houfe, that when the earthquakes 
fhall have cealed, I am periuaded, the great ell: part of them 
will hill continue to live in barracks. The barracks here (except 
fome few that are even elegant) are ill conilruCted, as are in 
general throughout the country all barracks of towns that have 
been fo little damaged as to allow the inhabitants to flatter 
themfelves with a hope of being able to return to, and occupy, 
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