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per of milk; and the next day we arrived at Limasol. 
A few days after, I went to visit the ruins of Ama- 
tliante, which are a league to the east of Limasol. 
Amathante was an immense city, situated upon se- 
veral hills, upon the sea shore. It must have been a 
very strong and considerable place, according to the 
numerous ruins which exist; but they are so defaced, 
that it is impossible to discover any object worthy of 
attention. I made some little sketches of what appeared 
to me most remarkable. Among those I speak of was 
a temple, the architecture of which shows it to have 
been erected at a period when the art had degenerated. 
Upon some of the arches, christian paintings may be 
seen, excellent in colouring, but detestable in design. 
Upon the top of a hill are the fragments of a column; 
and at a short distance there remain two other singular 
monuments. Two vases or jars, formed of the rock 
under foot, which are of a colossal size; the one is 
nearly destroyed, but the other is in a tolerably perfect 
state. 
These two vases, placed at the side of each other, 
must have been appropriated to the same use. 
The construction of these gigantic vases upon the 
summit of a hill, and the figure of a bull carved in bas- 
relief in the greatest perfection, on the four sides of 
each vase, answering to the four cardinal points, lead 
me to suppose, that they were destined to the libations 
or the sacrifices of Adonis. 
There are a great number of tombs dug out of the 
rock, and many inscriptions engraven upon large por- 
tions of it, to be seen. 
