66 Dl CESN OLA'S DISCOVERIES AT CURIUM. 



days t»y the voluntary subscriptions of zealous and munificent friends of 

 that institution : thus effecting the completion of a unique gallery, which is 

 the finest in the world, and exciting the envy of the old world savans. 



Rarpefs Weekly, of January 13, 1877, contains Gen. Di Cesnola's report 

 of his work for the year 1875, which is so interesting that we give nearly 

 the whole of it, in his own peculiar phraseology: 



"In the report I sent last year to the Museum I said that probably I 

 would undertake further explorations at Salamis; consequently early in 

 this spring I went there with my diggers for that purpose. According to 

 Porphyrins, Meursius, and other authors, before the arrival of Teucer there 

 existed a city named 'Korona;" and the Greek hero, according to these 

 authors, after the Trojan war, when banished by King Telamon, his father,, 

 from the kingdom of Salamis, came to 03^prus with his followers, took pos- 

 session of 'Korona,' rebaptized it 'Salamis,' and made himself king over it. 



"After some weeks of explorations I found nothing which would warrant 

 further excavations at that place. 



"In my opinion it will be very difficult hereafter and extraordinary to- 

 make any discovery of importance at Salamis, for the reason that I have 

 assured myself that there very extensive excavations have been undertaken 

 at different epochs and for .various purposes. 



"Under the Lusignan kings, according to a Cypriote writer, excavations 

 were made and continued for nearly two centuries, both at Salamis, Con- 

 stantia, and elsewhere, in search for architectural remains and sculptures 

 with which to decorate the royal palaces of these Crusader kings; in fact, 

 at Amathus, Cilium, Curium, the two Paphos, and Salamis, great many 

 tombs are visible to-day which were explored very probably at that period. 

 "Wherever I explored I convinced myself that others had visited those lo- 

 calities long before me, and therefore I gave up diggings at Salamis. 



"More or less the same thing may be said of Constantia, entirely leveled 

 to the ground by the 'Lion-hearted' King Eichard, though the city was- 

 already for more than a century in decaying condition, and with very few 

 inhabitants. Her building material was used under the Venetian Eepublic 

 to repair and strengthen the walls of Famagosta, in anticipation of that long 

 siege which she had to sustain from the Turks, and which sealed her fate 

 and that of this island. 



"From Salamis, always coasting the sea, I took the direction of Lar- 

 naca. In the vicinity of Cape Greco, which Strabo calls 'Pedalium,' I had 

 my tente pitched for several daj's. East of this promontory, some twenty 

 minutes' walk from it, I discovered the site upon which once existed the 

 city of LeucoUa; she owes the honor of being recorded by Strabo for nO' 

 other reason but for that of having accidentally given the name to the great 

 naval battle fought near her harbor by Demetrius and Ptolemy (b. c. 306). 



"Beyond Cape Greco, and always along the sea-shore, after many un- 

 successful attempts I succeeded at last to recognize and identify the exact 

 site whereupon was built a Greek city called 'Throni,' which Strabo men- 



