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THE EIRST VOLUME.

EXPLANATION of some terms peculiar to the order of Malta. - Page ixValue of the money, weights, and measures, in Malta, compared with those ofEngland. - -- -- -- -- -- xii

Catalogue of the principal works written on Malta and the knights of St. John ofJerusalem - ------- - xv

Supplement to the Catalogue. ------- xlii

BOOK I.

AN ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MALTA.

CHAPTER I,

The first authors of antiquity who have written on Malta. Different changes inthe government. Monuments left by the nations to which, at various times,the island has been subject. - ------ l

CHAP. II.

Situation of Malta. Description of the ports, towns, old city, and edifices; judi-cial and civil government; the grotto of St. Paul; the city Valetta; its situa-tion, foundation, principal edifices, curious monuments both in painting andsculpture. The university; its functions, utility, and abuses in the admini-stration. - ______ 20