118 Notices of Memoirs — Bellamy s Map of Cyprus. 



The coastline is very irregular and indented with several 

 extensive bays, the chief of which are those of Famagusta, Larnaca, 

 Limassol, Akrotiri, Krysokhou, and Morphou. About midway 

 along the southern seabord is the irregularly rectangular promontory 

 of Akrotiri, on which is situated the Limassol Salt Lake ; this 

 promontory culminates to the south-east in the conspicuous headland 

 of Cape Gata. In the north-east the island tapers off into the 

 remarkable peninsula of the Carpas, which is some 50 miles long 

 and nowhere more than 7 or 8 miles wide, terminating in Cape 

 Andreas, off which is situated the group of barren rocky pinnacles 

 comprising thp Klides Islands. 



South of Famagusta is the rugged headland of Cape Greco, 

 backed by a table-topped rock, a striking feature to navigators, 

 while at the western and north-western end of the island are Cape 

 Epiphanios or Acamas and Cape Kormakiti. 



The island is very mountainous. Along the northern seabord 

 stretch the Kyrenia Mountains from Cape Kormakiti until the 

 Carpas commences, and many of their summits exceed 2,000 feet in 

 height, the range culminating in Buffamento, 3,135 feet. In the 

 south-west central portion of the island rise the great masses of the 

 Troodos Adelphi and Olympus Mountains, the summit of the first 

 being Mount Troodos or ' Khionistra,' 6,406 feet above the sea. 

 The general trend of the mountain ranges is in an easterly and 

 westerly direction. 



Between these two ranges lie the central plains of the Mesaoria 

 extending from Morphou on the west to Famagusta on the east. 

 These lands, which comprise the washings of centuries from off the 

 adjoining mountain slopes, are of great fertility and are given 

 over to the cultivation principally of cereals, to which, indeed, the 

 whole of the low country is devoted. The mountain slopes are 

 appropriated to the cultivation of the vine, and the summits are 

 clad in pine-trees, ilex, arbutus, juniper, etc. The deep and narrow 

 valleys which seam the mountains enjoy great richness of soil, which 

 yields successive crops of wheat, barley, cotton, maize, millet, 

 potatoes, etc., and supports the olive, mulberrj'^, cherry, hazel, 

 walnut, fig, apricot, apple, and fruit trees of various kinds. 



The geology of Cyprus was dealt with exhaustively by M. Albert 

 Gaudry in the " Meraoires de la Societe Geologique de France," 

 ser. II, vol. vii (1862), to which a map was attached, but the latter 

 was compiled from a previously existing rough survey of the island 

 of doubtful accuracy. Other writers include MM. linger and 

 Kotschy, "Die Insel Cypern " (Vienna, 1865), and Mr. R. Eussell, 

 C.E., in a *' Report on the Existing Water Supply of the Island of 

 Cyprus" (Foreign Office, 1881). 



A map of the island on a scale of one inch to a mile, prepared 

 from a trigonometrical survey, executed under the direction of 

 Captain H, H. Kitchener, R.E., was published in 1882. A smaller 

 map, reduced from the Government Survey, has furnished the 

 author with a basis for the geological map noticed in this key. 



