. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. channel from the islandof Gaulos, Gozo. Melitawas conveniently situatedas a trading station, andwas from an early periodoccupied by a Phoeniciansettlement. It passed intothe hands of the Cartha-ginians, who held it untilthe Second Punic War,when it was taken by Tib. Sempronius, in 218. It was famousfor its wool,^ and for the manufacture of a fine cotton fabric,known at Pome as vestis ^Melitensis. It derives its chief interestfrom the shipwreck of St. Paul on its coasts (Acts, xxviii.) : th
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. channel from the islandof Gaulos, Gozo. Melitawas conveniently situatedas a trading station, andwas from an early periodoccupied by a Phoeniciansettlement. It passed intothe hands of the Cartha-ginians, who held it untilthe Second Punic War,when it was taken by Tib. Sempronius, in 218. It was famousfor its wool,^ and for the manufacture of a fine cotton fabric,known at Pome as vestis ^Melitensis. It derives its chief interestfrom the shipwreck of St. Paul on its coasts (Acts, xxviii.) : thememory of this event is preserved in the title of St. PauTs ^ onthe coast of the island. W^. of Melita lies the small and barrenisle of Cosyra,^ Faniello/ria. § 5. The large island of Sardinia, the Sardo of the Greeks, lies Corsica, and of Sicily, and is distant only 120 geographicalmiles from the coast of Africa. Its form resembles an oblong paral-lelogram: its length is above 1-iO geographical miles, and itsavera2;e breadth about 60. It is traversed bv a chain of moimtains. Coiu of Melita, 5 Telaque superba Lanigera Melite. Sil. Ital. xir. 250. 6 Ovid contrasts tlie barrenness of Cos^Ta vrith tlie fertility of Malta : thecontrast does not hold good as regards the latter island, Aviiich is rocky anddry :— ^ ^ Fertilis est Melite, sterili vicina CosyrcB Insula, quam Libyci verberat imda freti. Fast. iii. 567. It resembles somevrhat the print of a mans foot, and hence was namedIchnusa by the Greeks : — Insula, fluctisono circnmvallata profuudo,Castigatur aquis, compressaqiie gurgite terrasEnormes cohibet niido? sub imagine Ichnusa prius Grails memorata colonis,INIox Libyci Sardus generoso sanguine MensHerculis, ex sese mutavit nomina etiam, et sedes posuere coactas Dispersi pelago, post eruta Pergama, Teucri. Sil. Ital. xii. 35 5. Chap. XXYIII. SAEDIXIA. 607 fromX. to S., a xjortionof whicli in the X. vras named Insani Montes
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