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Title: My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Stewart, Basil, 1880-
Subjects: Cyprus -- Description and travel Great Britain -- Colonies Cyprus
Publisher: London : G. Routledge New York, E.P. Dutton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s. are several large houses rapidly falling intoruin where the foreign consuls formerlyresided. It contains a mosque, a large Latinconvent with a spacious church attached, andtwo smaller Greek churches. One of these,the Christo Poleidissa, has a very quaintold door adorned with curious, very Indian-looking carving, and over it a wonderfulpainting of the Virgin and Child executedabout the middle of last century. Thecarving is spoilt, however, by being filledup with whitewash, and, consequently hardlyshows to advantage in the photograph Itook of it. Both Turks and Christianshave an unhappy habit of smotheringeverything in whitewash, and the beautifulcarving and tracery in the porch of SanSophia, in Nicosia, is almost entirely hiddenfrom view under its many coats of paint.The church attached to the convent is avery large one, built about 1843. It containssome good paintings by Italian artists, par-ticularly one of John the Baptist, dated 1878,and signed Chcrubini. There are also other 44
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ijiiciK (jF (;reek church i.\ old larnaka. Larnaka. pictures of about the same date of St.Antony (?), and of the Virgin Mary. The new town of Marina is built close alongthe sea-front, there being little or no tideto allow for, and one can almost dive fromthe balcony of a front room in the hotel intothe sea. About 2^2. miles south-west of Larnakalies «he Salt Lake, some two square milesin area. There are two theories as to the formationof the salt, which is collected and heaped upin quantities of several tons in the summerand sold for about i ^d. for three pounds. Onetheory is that the sea water filters throughthe sand and fills the lake, which in the summermonths is evaporated quicker than the supplycan percolate through, thus leaving a thickcoating: of salt over the soil. The othertheory, which is the one I consider mostprobable, is that the soil is already impreg-nated with salt, and that the water in it isoriginally fresh water, brought there by astream which is fed by the winter

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