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of important land-marks, alluded to by antient chap. 
geographers, are also uncertain. According to '■ - v ■ ' 
Strabo, the Cleides were two islands upon the north- 
east coast; PHm/ makes their number four; 
and Herodotus mentions a promontory that had 
the name given to these islands. If we consult 
the text of Strabo, his description of Cyprus^ 
appears to be expressed with more than usual 
precision and perspicuity. Yet of two renowned 
cities, Salamis and Citiian, the first distinguished 
for the birth of the historian Aristus, and the 
last conspicuous by the death of Cimon, neither 
the situation of the one nor of the other has 
been satisfactorily determined. D'Anville assigns 
a different position for these cities, and for 
the present towns of Famagosta and Larneca; 
although Drummond^, " vir haud contem- 
NENDUs/' as he is styled by a late commentator 
upon Strabo*, and also Pococke\ whose proverbial 
veracity is beyond all praise ^ from their own 
(2) Strahon. Geo^. lib. xiv. p. 970. ed. Oxon. 
(3) Travels, &c. in a Series of Letters, by /Alexander Drummoml. 
Land. 1754. 
(4) See the Notes to the Oxford Edition of Strabo, p. 972. 
(5) Pocot'AeV Description of tiie East, 2 vols. 1743-45. See vol. II. 
p. 213. 
(6) It should be observed, however, that Drummond , although he 
seems to agree with Pococke in the situation of Cilium, criticises very 
severely the freedom used by that author, in presuming to trace the 
walls of the city from imaginary remains ; and also for his erroneous 
map of the coast. See Drumtnond's Travels, Lett. xii. p. 248. 
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