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land, who is said to have added to his sign this 
notification, “ Better accommodations within 
than might be expected from outward ap¬ 
pearances.” The provisions at the Corona 
were excellent. Abbate keeps a book in 
which travellers insert their names, with 
remarks on the treatment they have received, 
and some persons have amused themselves 
by adding a great deal of absurd nonsense 
besides. We were glad to find that the 
waiter of this hotel could speak English. 
He was a good-tempered, communicative fel¬ 
low, and he informed us, that he was by 
birth a Spaniard, but had spent some years 
in England as a workman in a pottery. 
We remained at Catania several davs 
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waiting for clear weather, for we wished to 
ascend Mount Etna as far as the termina¬ 
tion of the woody region, or “ Bosco,” as it 
is called; at this time of the year, I believe, 
