CYPRUS. 53 
out of all the cities of Israel "with three- chap. 
STRiN-GED INSTRUMENTS ;"' but the choiccr and ^ , — ' 
more costly instruments, consecrated to graver 
measures in the service of the Temple, were 
of a different description, and of a later in- 
vention : they are expressly denominated, by 
David himself, "instruments often strings:" 
and when praises are to be offered, not merely 
to a champion by the people, but by a priest, 
a prophet, and a king, to the Most High God, 
then the Psalmist declares he will " sing a new 
SONG, and play skilfully" — "upon an in- 
strument of ten strings, and upon the psalteri/, 
and upon the harp, with a solemn sound." 
The cheese made in this island is tolerably Produce of 
^ the Lland. 
good ; and the markets are well supplied with 
vegetables. Among the number of things 
mentioned by Sandys to be found in Cyprus, 
very few are now to be procured. The chief 
products of the island are wine, raisins, citrons, 
oranges, pomegranates, almonds, figs, coloquin- 
tida (Cucumis Colocynthis),ihe native place of which 
Miller* maintains to be unknown; also wool, 
cotton^ silk, and salt. Almost all the inhabitants 
(3) Psalms xxxiii. 2. xcii. 3. 
(4) See Miller's Gardener's Diet, by Marti/n, vol. I. part II. Lond, 
1807. 
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