Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.

[…] difficult to cultivate, on account of the outcrop thereon of a large bed of flints called locally a 'lanch' or 'lanchet.'

It is an attractive hypothesis, which we accept, that these Muslim influences played on the art of Amalfi during the great age of the Republic and not merely (as some think) after the city was subdued by the Siculo-Normans.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.