12 Sketch of the Physical Nature of ('.vpriLs 



tains. Thus the Troodos-mountains are, especially the higher parts of them, in the winter regularly covered 

 with deep snow during several months; to this alludes the name of their highest summit, Chionistra. The 

 dissolution of the snow on the Troodos-mountains usually takes place in April and May; still on the 6th 

 of April, 1859, Kotschy found the mountains covered with deep winter-snow down to ca. 1600 m. above 

 sea-level. Generally the last snow disappears towards the end of May, but insignificant patches of snow 

 may continue still longer. Fig. 4, drawn after a photograph by the author, shows how mucli snow was to 

 be seen on Chionistra on Midsummer-day, 1905— allowing for the heaps of snow, which are protected against 

 dissokition by means of branches, earth, etc. in order to furnish the restaurants of the towns in the hot season. 



