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exhibited in its construction: the cathedrals chap. 
both of Famagosta and Nicotia are described as ^ i.y .. > 
Gothic. If it be true, therefore, that the 
Nicotian church was erected by Justinian, we 
have authority for the existence of that style of 
architecture, in a high degree of perfection, so 
long ago as the middle of the sixth century; 
six hundred and forty years before the conquest 
of Cyprus by Richard the First; and certainly 
long anterior to the introduction of any 
specimen of the arcliitecture called Gothic into 
Great Britain. Other examples of still higher 
antiquity exist in Egypt, in Palcestine, and 
in India. 
- The only manufactures which we noticed 
in Nicotia were those of Turkey leather, of 
small carpets, and of printed cottons. The 
red leather made here, like that of Acre, is 
remarkable for its brilliant and lively colour. 
Mariti describes it as superior in this respect 
to the leather which is manufactured in Barhary^. 
The carpets were barely large enough to cover 
an English hearth; but they were valued at 
forty and fifty piastres each. The workmanship 
was, however, excellent. We visited the cotton 
manufactory. The process did not appear to 
(3) Mmriti's Travels, vol. I. p. 102. Lmd, 1791. 
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