CYPRUS. 



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mixed with the Ilex, and some trees scattered here and there in the 

 valley below of the Quercus iEgilops, are the only trees that can be 

 regarded as proper for timber. The carob, the olive, the Andrachne, 

 the Terebinthus, the lentisc, the kermes oak, the Storax, the cypress, 

 and oriental plane, furnish not only fuel in abundance for the inhabi- 

 tants, but sufficient to supply, in some degree, those of Egypt. 



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