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📗 THE NEW WINtj RESORT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SICILY BY DOUGLAS SLADEN WITH 234 ILLUSTRATIONS, A MAP, AND A TABLE OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM OF SICILY, SHOWING UNDER THE HEADING OF EACH STATION THE MONUMENTS AND SCENERY SERVED BY IT, EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY DILIGENCE NEW YORK E. P. BUTTON AND COMPANY 31 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 1907 THE CASA NORMANNA SALITA S. ANTONIO, PALERMO From a drawing by BENTON FLETCHER Frontispiece DEDICATED TO COMMENDATORE LUIGI MAUCERI AN EMINENT SICILIAN ANTIQUARY, TO WHOSE LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY, KNOWLEDGE OF ITS MONUMENTS, AND ORGANIZING POWER THE DEVELOPMENT OF SICILY IS SO LARGELY DUE. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE WITH A KEY TO THE SICILIAN DIALECT . . xv PART I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS CHAPTER I. SICILY AS A WINTER RESORT ITS CLIMATE WHAT THERE IS TO SEE WHAT THERE IS TO DO . . I II. TRAVEL IN SICILY . . . 13 III. THE MAFIA AND OMERTA THE IMMUNITY OF FOREIGNERS FROM MOLESTATION IN SICILY . 22 IV. VARIOUS TYPES AND COSTUMES OF VARIOUS PLACES PlANA DEI GRECI, AND OTHER ALBANIAN SETTLE MENTSTHE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE . 27 V. THE SCENERY, THE GARDENS, AND THE WILD FLOWERS . . . ... 40 VI. THE BARGAIN-HUNTER IN SICILY . 49 VII. THE CHURCHES A JD THE LIFE IN THEM . . 58 VIII. THE PALERMO MUSEUM . . . 68 IX. MOTORING IN SICILY . . ... 85 PART II. THINGS SICILIAN Gives, alphabetically arranged, in the manner of an encyclopaedia, paragraphs of the newest and most necessary information concerning the principal cities, monuments, and scenery of Sicily, together with brief accounts o...