HISTORY OF MALTA

BOOK I.

AN ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MALTA.

CHAPTER I.

The first:Authors, of Antiquity who have written on Malta. DifferentChanges in the Government. Monuments left by the Nations towhich, at various Times, the Island has been subject.

• Nations.

Phseacians ....Phoenicians ....Greeks .

Carthaginians . . .

Romans.

Vandals and GothsArabs .

NormansGermansFrenchSpaniards

Monuments in Malta and Goza.

Ancient tombs.

Medals, vases, &c.

Altars, statues, medals.

Base and shaft of chandelier with in-scriptions.

Inscriptions, basso-relievos.

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Statues of bronze.

Medals, or rather gold coins.

Nothing remains of these nations butsome title deeds relative to churchendowments.

The most ancient author who mentions Malta is Homer, inhis Odyssey, where it is called the Isle of Hyperia, which, ac-cording to fabulous history, was originally inhabited by the

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