CYPRUS. 
mercury, exposed to its full current, rose six 
degrees of Fahrenheit in two minutes, from eighty 
to eighty-six ; a singular consequence of north- 
east wind to Englishmen, accustomed to consider 
this as the coldest to which their island is 
exposed. All the coast of Cyprus, from Salines 
to Famagosta, antiently Salamis, is liable to hot 
winds, from almost every point of the compass ; 
from the north-east; from the east; from the 
south-east ; from the south ; and south-west. 
The north-east, commg from the parched deserts 
oi Curdistan ; the east, from the sands oi Palmyra; 
the south-east, from the great desert of Arabia ; 
and the south, and south-west, from Egypt and 
Lyhia. From the west, north-west, and north, 
the inhabitants are barred by high mountains, 
lying open to the beams of a scorching sun, 
reflected from a soil so white, that the glare is 
often sufficient to cause temporary blindness, 
without even the prospect of a single tree, 
beneath which one might hope for shade. In 
the middle of the day few animals are seen in 
motion, except the lizard, seeming to sport with 
greatest pleasure where the sun is most power- 
ful; and a species of long black serpents, 
abounding in Cyprus: one of these, which we 
killed, measured four feet and three inches in 
length. Sometimes, also, a train of camels may 
be noticed, grazing among dusty thistles and 
