]S CYPRUS. 
CHAR fruit is boiled, after being stuffed with rice. 
, ' We found it refreshing and pleasant, partaking 
the flavour both of asparagus and artichoke. 
We noticed also the beet-root, melons, cucum- 
bers, and a very insipid kind of mulberry of a 
white colour. The corn of the island, where 
the inhabitants have courage or industry enough 
to venture on the cultivation of the land, in 
despite of their Twkish oppressors and the 
dangers of the climate, is of the finest quality. 
The wheat, although bearded, is very large, and 
the bread made from it extremely white and 
good. Perhaps there is no part of the world 
where the vine yields such redundant and 
luscious fruit : the juice of the Cyprian grape 
Wine of resembles a concentrated essence. The wine 
t/pus. ^^ ^j^^ island is so famous all over the Levant, 
that, in the hyperbolical language of the Greeks, 
it is said to possess the power of restoring youth 
to age, and animation to those who are at the 
point of death. Englishmen, however, do not 
consider it as a favourite beverage : it requires 
nearly a century of age to deprive it of that 
sickly sweetness which renders it repugnant to 
their palates. Its powerful aperient quality is 
also not likely to recommend it, where wine is 
drunk in any considerable quantity, as it some- 
times disorders the bowels even after being kept 
for many years. When it has remained in bottles 
