Identifier: journaloflatecam00wals (find matches)
Title: Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents
Year: 1803 (1800s)
Authors: Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
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Publisher: London T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e, and the sky clearand serene. On the SlGth we were in sight ofSardinia, which is extremely high and mountain-ous. This island, the late king of which, deprivedby the French of all his otherpossessions, was atlength induced to retire to a convent, is extremelyfruitful, though mountainous, and, if properlycultivated, would become abundantly productive.Its greatest length is one hundred and fifty milesfrom north to south, and its circumference iscomputed at about four hundred and fifty. Onthe ^8th we discovered Cape Bon, on the Africanshore : the next day we passed close to the smallisland of Pantalaria, fubject to the king of theTwo Sicilies, which is very high in the centre, andstands nearly in the midchannel between Africaand Sicily. It is inhabited, and said to be veryfertile. On the 30th we saw Sicily, and were allday abreast of Gozo, the wind having entirelyfailed us. December 1st. Malta. This morning, after successive hopes and fears,we succeeded in entering the narrow but beau-
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M H ^ r^^ > M^ EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. 15 tiful harbour of Malta. I trust I shall standexcused in dwellmg somewhat diffusely onthis little island, well known in the annals ofhistory, yet the value of which is far from beingproperly appreciated in England. Its fafe andcommodious harbours, its immense population,and, I may venture to say, its impregnable forti-fications, were by no means estimated, previous ^fia vaigj^^to the event which placed it in our hands, accord- ^^^^ ^ing to the preeminence they hold, if not in theworld, at least in the Mediterranean. The harbours of Malta are extremely spacious,and from their numerous coves capable of con-taining four or five hundred large vessels, to whichthey afibrd the most complete shelter. That ofMahon is by no means equal to tliem ; but itsdistance from Great Britain is indeed somewhatmore convenient, Marsa Muscat harbour, though very good andcommodious, is made use of only for vesselsperforming quarantine. In it is a remarkablyfine lazare

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