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LETTERS FROM 
LETTER VI. 
Messina , March 22d, 1834. 
We were detained in Malta several days 
after I closed my last letter by contrary 
winds, but on the evening of Tuesday, 
March 4th, after a very hot and calm day, a 
light breeze arose from the southward, and 
we went on board the vessel in which we 
had engaged a passage to Mascali. We 
did not leave the Grand Harbour till seven 
in the evening. There was very little wind 
when we got under weigh, but it gradually 
increased after sunset, and by midnight we 
had a fine breeze from south-west, which 
forced our sluggish bark through the water 
at the rate of about four miles an hour. Our 
