12 CYPRUS. 
CHAP, intelligence of its appearance, being aloft, upon 
V . -v > the look-out, in the phuttock-shrouds. Cape 
Blanco, antiently Curias Promontory^ then hove 
in view (to use the language of seamen); and 
soon after the whole island was seen indistinctly 
looming, (as mariners would also express it,) 
amidst thick fogs'. It appeared very high and 
mountainous. We had such light breezes and 
Salines. frcqucut caluis, that we did not reach Salines 
Bay until three o'clock p. m. on Saturday the 
sixth of June. We had coasted the whole island, 
from its western extremity ; and so near to the 
shore, that we had a distinct view of the 
country. We saw the fortress and town of 
Bajl:i, antiently Paphos, backed by high moun- 
tains. The coast towards the west much 
resembles the southern part of the Crimea; the 
villages and cultivated places being near the 
shore, and all behind craggy and mountainous. 
From Baffa to Limasol, near to the spot where 
the antient city of Amathus stood, the coast 
appears to be very fertile, and more so than any 
part of the island that we afterwards visited. 
Towards the south-western district, the country 
is well covered with forest-trees, and particu- 
larly in the neighbourhood of Baffa. Limasol 
(1) The situation being favourable for shewing the shape of the island, 
the author made a sketch of its appearance, from which the Vii^nette 
engraved for this Chapter was taken. 
