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The port of Baffa is a league and a half to the south 
of Ktima, accordingly its latitude is 34° 46' 34" N. and 
its longitude the same as Ktima. 
The next morning, Saturday 26th, after having re- 
ceived the visit of the respectable Alai Bey, I set out 
for the ancient Paphos, which is distant half a mile 
upon the sea coast. 
In approaching the ancient Paphos, I perceived no- 
thing but some detached and isolated rocks in the plain; 
but what was my surprise, when, upon examining them, 
I discovered that the inside of each was excavated with 
the greatest regularity, and that they formed habitable 
houses; my astonishment increased, when I found un- 
der ground the image of a tower, entirely hollowed in 
the rock. The ceilings of the apartments in these sub- 
terranean houses were hewn in low vaults, but there 
were some that were not arched; the walls well polish- 
ed, perpendicular, and at right angles. Some of these 
edifices have the appearance of a palace, with courts, 
galleries, columns, pilasters, and all the elegance of ar- 
chitectural ornaments that can be imagined. The whole 
glitters w T ith the same beauty as gilding, the polish be- 
ing completely perfect, notwithstanding such a great 
lapse of time. When this effort of man is considered, 
it produces a feeling of veneration for the constructors 
of a system of works, which appears antecedent to 
books and medals of the highest antiquity. The rock, 
in which the edifices are, is composed of a yellowish 
white calcareous sandy stone, with a small grain, form- 
ing oblique horizontal layers. 
In one of the excavations some columns are broken, 
and the capitals remain fixed to the architrave, because 
