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Excerpt from Sicily: A Pilgrimage Cially if he be fresh from the supenor facilities of the continent. To one who sympathizes warmly with his race, there are, in addition, many painful associations constantly awakened by the existent poverty and deg radation of the Sicilians, but ill-calculated to cheer his sojourn. If these considerations, however, are suffi cient to deter the unadventurous from exploring this remarkable island, they afford no inconsiderable mo tive to one whom circumstances have lured within its fertile precincts, to attempt to convey an idea to oth ers of What there has interested his own mind. It is with such a view that the following pages were writ ten. 'the form in which these descriptions and thoughts, suggested by a tour '111 Sicily, are presented, was adopted for the purpose of avoiding that egotisti cal tone from which it is almost impossible to escape in a formal journal, as well as to obviate the necessity of dwelling upon those unimportant details and cir cumstances which are common to every tour in Eu rope, and therefore too familiar to be interesting. 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.