THE NATUEAL HISTOEY EEVIEW. 



procurable. For tliemselves and baggage, a train of seven animals 

 (horses, mules, and asses,) was required. Their attendants were a 

 cook and two muleteers, and for collecting they trusted to them- 

 selves alone. 



The different portions of the work are divided between the two 

 authors pretty much as they divided their duties as observers, but 

 the introduction and most of the general narrative and observations 

 are from the pen of Dr. linger, who further gives a general outline 

 of the principal features of the vegetation. The more detailed 

 observations on the Flora and the excellent list of flowering-plants is 

 by Kotschy, to whom we also owe, with the assistance of others for 

 many of the groups, the list of animals. 



Among the Mediterranean islands, Cyprus yields in size only to 

 Sicily, Sardinia, and Candia. Its gi'eatest length is 121 geogra- 

 phical miles, its greatest breadth rather more than fifty miles, its 

 circumference about 250 miles, and its area 2768 square miles. It 

 lies in the centre of a wide bay, which is interposed between the 

 coasts of Asia Minor and S3a'ia, and its longest axis is from east to 

 west. It consists of two distinct masses of mountains separated by 

 a wide plain. The northern mountain- chain is long and narrow, and 

 its higher summits rise only a little above 3000 feet. The eastern 

 half of this chain projects boldly into the sea, in a direction somewhat 

 north of east, in the form of a narrow promontory rather than a 

 peninsula. The southern mountain mass, oval in outline, rises on 

 the south and west almost abruptly from the sea, or is skirted by a 

 narrow belt of level country. Its slopes are steep and separated by 

 deep and narrow valleys. Three hills rise above 5000 feet, and one, 

 Troodos, the highest mountain in the island, is rather more than 

 6000 feet high. To the north and east lies the wide central plain, about 

 as extensive in area as the south mountain mass, through which the 

 great rivers flow. These rivers are two in number, and rise on the 

 north flank of the mountains nearly in the middle of the island, 

 whence one flows westward, and the other, the larger of the two, 

 eastward to the sea. 



The southern mountain mass is mainly plutonic. Its western 

 half its entirely so, but on part of the eastern slopes there rests a 

 coating of sedimentary rocks. The northern chain has an axis of 

 plutonic rocks which rarely comes to the surface, being generally 

 concealed by highly inclined strata of limestone often brecciated and 

 generally not fossiliferous. These are referred with some hesitation 



