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Excerpt from Description of Malta and Gozo
Formerly the bulwark of Christendom against the bloody banner of Islamism and infidelity, and exerting a salutary influence 0' er the desolations of Africa, giving also decisive checks to the infamous piracies of the Barbary coast, Malta, now also, in our own times, exerts a still nobler because a moral in¿uence, upon the shores of the Mediterranean, and occupies. Under the benign and all powerful flag of Great Bri tain, a prouder attitude than even during the most renowned days of her chivalrous story, under the sovereignty of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
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