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of Paphos or BafFa on the left, arrived at ten o'clock at 
Ktima, the residence of the governor, and the see of a 
Greek bishop. 
The present governor, who is named Ala'f Bey, is 
looked upon as the second Turkish dignitary in the 
island. I alighted at his house, he received me with 
pomp, for he made me enter on horseback as far as the 
door of his apartment. An elegant repast was afterwards 
served up. Alai Bey was a man more than eighty years 
of age, extremely polished, and had occupied his sta- 
tion during many years, being universally beloved by 
the Turks and the Greeks. 
After the repast, I went to a house which had been 
prepared for me, where I performed my ablutions; and 
then went to the mosque, which, though small, is very 
pretty. It was formerly a Greek church, dedicated to 
St. Sophia. 
The town of Ktima, though formerly considerable, 
is now nothing but a labyrinth of ruins; and has the 
appearance of containing twenty or thirty thousand in- 
habitants, whereas it really contains but about two hun- 
dred Turkish and twenty Greek families. The bishop's 
palace, with its dependancies, is in a separate quarter. 
The bishop was absent, and it appears he fixes his resi- 
dence in an interior town, which is said to be tolerably 
large, and its inhabitants composed entirely of Greeks. 
Having made some observations at Ktima, I found 
its latitude to be 34° 48' 4" N. An immersion of 
the second of Jupiter's satellites made the longitude 
2° 0' 9" E. from the observatory of Paris; and a 1 unary 
distance gave 1° 59' 40", consequently the mean longi- 
tude is 1° 59' 54" of time, or 29° 58' 30" E. . 
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