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Earthquakes, injure Venosa, 31, 38; Rossano, 113; Reggio and Messina, 230-239; Bagnara, 242; Sant’ Eufemia, 243; Bova, 273; their effect on coast-line, 285. Eboli, C. d’, 256.

Ecclesiastics under Bourbons, prodigious numbers of, 212.

Edrisius, quoted, 109, 286, 298.

Education, Italian ideas on, 185.

Eels, resuscitated from death, 261.

Egidio, saint, 260-264.

Elba, island, 240.

Elia Junior, saint, in.

Elia Spelaeotes, saint, 111-112.

Elias, saint, displaces Helios, 188.

Elvira, Council of, 153.

Emigrants to America, their wine-bibbing propensities and intelligence, 21-22; other characteristics, 146, 209.

Emigration, reduces population, 28, 49, 209; its effect on the race, 48, 50, 97, 194, 210; breaks up big properties, 289.

English government, encourages brigandage, 212,

Englishmen, considered savages, 5.

English mentality, contrasted with Italian, 66, 91, 117, 123, 124, 179, 248, 265, 311.

English travellers in south Italy, 181, 280.

Ennius, 79.

Envy, prevalent native vice, 126, 127, 129.

Ephesus, synod of, 259.

Epictetus, 251.

Erasmus, 264.

Eros, degenerates into Cupid, 25.

Esaro, river (i), 172.

Esaro, river (2), 297.

Espedito, saint, 4.

Eucalyptus trees, a scandalous growth, 97, 98.

Euprassius, protospadarius of Calabria, 111.

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