DESCRIPTIVE OF THE

RESOURCES, INHABITANTS, AND HYDROGRAPHY,

OF

SICILY AND ITS ISLANDS,
SICILY

INTERSPERSED WITH

ANTIQUARIAN AND OTHER NOTICES.

BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY SMYTH, R.N., K.S.F.,

FELLOW OF THE ASTRONOMICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN
SOCIETIES OF LONDON.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY,

AND INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY

THE ATLAS OF SICILY, PUBLISHED AT THEIR OFFICE.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXIV.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS

FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE OF

LORD HIGH ADMIRAL,

&c. &c. &c.,

THIS MEMOIR, DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPLANATORY OF A SURVEY OF SICILY, EXECUTED, UNDer their lordSHIPS' DIRECTIONS AND ENCOURAGING PATRONAGE, DURING THE YEARS 1814, 1815, AND 1816,

IS MOST GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

BY

THEIR LORDSHIPS

MOST OBEDIENT

AND HUMBLE SERVANT,

W. H. SMYTH.