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it appears probable that my assertion is correct; that 
this female had great power in the island; that Cythera 
and Idalia ought to be looked upon as having formed 
a part of her gardens; that if a poet had existed in the 
island he would have deified these objects, and made 
the heroine, whom he would have compared to Venus, 
the daughter of Jupiter, the subject of his poem; or 
perhaps even the universal attraction, which preceded 
the civilization of the Greeks, or of the Egyptians their 
masters, and perhaps in this apotheosis, the poetical 
genius might have immortalized an object which by its 
nature was far from deserving immortality. 
In the most elevated apartment, which is without a 
roof, is a wild cypress, from which I broke a branch 
with the fruit on it. I afterwards mounted the wall and 
loosened the most elevated stone of the edifice. 
From this situation, I enjoyed a magnificent view: 
With the exception of a small corner of earth, hid by 
the mountains of Paphos, or mount Olympus, the eye 
embraces almost the whole of the circumference of the 
island of Cyprus, in a bird's eye view, or as upon a 
map. Towards the northern side, I discovered the lit- 
tle town of Chirigna, which appears seated at the foot 
of the mountain. Having made an observation with 
my compass, and compared it with the geographical 
position of Nicosia, I discovered the latitude of Chi- 
rigna to be 35° 25' N. and its longitude 30" 1' 30" E. 
from the observatory of Paris. The horizon is of so 
great an extent, that the eye confounds the sea with the 
heavens, which appear like a thick fog. There does 
not exist any spring upon this rock, but I suspect there 
was one formerly, and perhaps that at the monastery of 
