TO CYPRUS. 
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TO CYPRUS, 
I LEFT Seide on the 23d of May, 1751, and at 
the fame time the Syrian coaft, of which I could 
not fee any more for many reafons. I went on 
hoard a fmall French veil'd, in which I failed to 
Cyprus. On the 28th, we anchored in the road of 
Larnaco, a village, where the European Confuls 
dwell; part of which lies on the ihore, but the 
greateft part a quarter of a league from it. In the 
former lives the Conful from Naples ; in the latter 
the Confuls from France, England, Venice and Ra* 
gufa, have their houfes. I lived at the houfe of the 
Venetian Conful, who was alfo Conful for Sweden, 
during the time I waited for an opportunity of con* 
tinuing my return. As this was the reafon of my 
Coming to Cyprus, I had no notion of travelling 
through the ifland, for which this feafon of the 
year is not the beft, as one can hardly crofs the 
hreet in the day time, on account of the heat, and 
therefore mull travel by night. The feafon to bo- 
tanize was likewife over; and befides, the country 
affords little extraordinary in botany; wherefore I 
found it not worth my while to make long excur- 
h°ns in the country. For this reafon I made only 
two fliort journies in Cyprus. St. Crux, the higheli 
mountain 
