I. Sketch of the Physical Nature of Cyprus. 



A. Geographical Sitnation. Area. 



Cyprus is situated in the easternmost part of tiie Mediterranean, between 34° 35' and 35" 41' 

 N. Lat. and between 32" 16' and 34" 36 E. Long. Green. Apart from a few small rocks quite near the 

 shore, there are no surrounding islands.. The distances from the nearest points of the opposite coasts are 

 as follows: Cape Kormakiti— Cape Anamur in Cilicia 74 km. (about 46 miles), Cape Hagios Andreas— 

 Latakia in Syria 96 km. (about 60 miles), Cape Zevgari— Damiette in Egypt 313 km. (193 miles). The 

 greatest length of the island, from WSW to ENE, is about 224 km. (140 miles), and its greatest breadth 

 from N to S is about 96 km. (60 miles). The area is 9 537 km.- (3 681 square miles). Cyprus is the 

 tiiird largest island of the Mediterranean, being larger than Corsika and Crete, and in size only inferior to 

 Sicily and Sardinia. Further it may be mentioned, that the island is considerably larger than the great 

 Danish island Zealand (6 946 km.-) and about as large as the county of Nedenæs in Norway (9 348 km.-). 



B. Topography. 



a. Coast. 



In all directions there are prominent capes, separated by wide and open bays. To this alludes 

 one of the classical names of the island, Kspaari?. 



Most conspicuous of these forelands is the Karpas, a narrow tongue of land carried far out into 

 the sea to north-east. From Trikomo to its outmost point near Hag. Andreas the length is about 76 km. 

 or almost exactly one third of the total length of the island, while the breadth is nowhere more than 16 km. 



As a general rule the coast is low, rising gently inwards, towai-ds the interior of the island. Only 

 now and then as f. inst. between Pissuri and Kuklia, on the northern side of the peninsula of Akamas, 

 and at Juti near Heptakomi the cliffs rise dii'ectly from the sea to a considerable height. The north coast 

 is not far away from the base of the mountains, but generally gives place to a strip of low land. 



Along the bays of Famagusta, Limassol and Morphu there are extensive areas of loose sand. 

 Through the action of the wind the sand is often heaped into large downs, running along the sea-shore. 

 Smaller stretches of sand-drifts occur in several other places near the coast, e. g- at Hag. Napa, Polis 

 lis Chrysoku, between Hag. Amvi'osios and Hag. Epiktitos and at Davlos on the north-coast. 



As another eminent coast-formation may be mentioned the salt-lakes at Larnaka and Limassol. 

 They fill up large, flat-bottomed lagoons, which during the greatest part of the year are secluded from 

 the sea by banks of sand and gravel. Through narrow, artificially deepened channels sea-water in 



Vegetation of Cyprus — ] 



