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Excerpt from An Autumn in Sicily: Being an Account of the Principal Remains of Antiquity Existing in That Island, With Short Sketches of Its Ancient and Modern History, With a Map and Illustrations MY fellow-traveller, Mr. Odell, and I, proposed, on our return from our tour, to publish in conjunction a volume descriptive of it, of which he undertook the compilation. From various causes the work was laid aside by him, after some sheets had been struck off. In the course of last winter, when on a visit at his residence, I saw them, and thinking it a pity that the mass of notes which he had collected should, as well as the plates (the superintendence of which had originally been my share of the work), remain useless, I obtained his permission to carry off and make use of the entire of the materials, with full power to pre serve, alter, and omit, as I thought proper; I under taking all responsibility for the result, which is now, with much diflidence, presented to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.