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to sec me, attended by a numerous suite. The consuls 
and the nobility of the town also paid me the same ho- 
nours. 
The roads of Larnaca appeared to me very open and 
unsheltered; but its geographical position, facing the 
coast of Syria, causes many ships to put in there. 
At the distance of a mile from Larnaca is a borough 
called Scala, where the English and two other consuls 
reside. The landing place is also there. 
By good observations I found the longitude of Lar- 
naca to be 31° 27' 30" E. from the observatory of Pa- 
ris, and the latitude 34° 56' 54" N. 
On the 8th of April at two in the afternoon we quit- 
ted Larnaca in a S. S. E. direction; we soon came to 
an aqueduct of a considerable length, but of a mean 
construction. At a quarter past three we arrived at the 
garden of a country house, and stopped there about 
half an hour; upon leaving it, the clouds began to ga- 
ther, and notwithstanding the diligence we used, the 
rain overtook us before we arrived at Mazzotos, where 
we halted at six in the evening. The plain which we 
crossed is a little fertile, bounded on the left at the dis- 
tance of two or three miles by the sea, and on the right 
by mountains. Mazzotos is a poor village, situated 
upon a good soil, at the foot of the mountains. 
On the 9th, at half past five in the morning, we be- 
gan our journey towards the S. W.; at six we turned 
towards the west, after having crossed a fertile country, 
which the inhabitants call Laconicas; and which, they 
say, was formerly inhabited by a nation of that name. I 
was given to understand that upon the right 1 should 
see the ruins of Alamina, which ought not to be con- 
