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Volume 18 · 60 words · 1842 Edition

a city of the island of Sardinia, in the diocese of Cagliari. It stands on a bay of the same name. Though many of the houses are respectable, they are all built of bricks dried by the sun. The walls of the church-yard are strangely decorated with skulls and thigh-bones. The situation is tolerably healthy. The inhabitants amount to 3129.