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Excerpt from The History of the Province of Sicily The value of an author's treatment of an historical ques tion must depend largely on the character of his sources. In the following discussion of the history of the province of Sicily, the aim has been to use only material which applies strictly to Sicily, and as a rule no attempt has been made to fill in the picture with material which relates primarily to Italy or to Greece, but might with a considerable degree of probability be applied to Sicily. In the very few in stances Where such material has been used, it has been where the facts in question were undoubtedly paralleled in the island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.