Malta.
"_Qui facit per alium, facit per se_."--In Vol. vii., p. 488., I observe an
attempt to trace the source of the expression, "Qui facit per alium, facit
per se." A few months since I met with the quotation under some such form
as "Qui facit per alium, per se facere videtur," in the preface to a book
on _Surveying_, by Fitzherbert (printed by Berthelet about 1535), where it
is attributed to St. Augustine. As I know of no copy of the works of that
father in these parts (though I heard him quoted last Sunday in the
pulpit), I cannot at present verify the reference.