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east coast; Pliny 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 per¬ 
spicuity. Yet of two renowned chics, Salamis and Citium, 
the first distinguished for the birth of the historian Aristus, and 
the last conspicuous by the death of Cynvon, neither the situs- 
lion of the one nor the other has been satisfactorily determined, 
D’Anville assigns a different position for these cities, and for 
the present towns of Famagosta arid Larneca; although Drum¬ 
mond, f “ Fir hand contemnendus ,” as he is styled by a late 
commentator upon Strabo,| and also Poeocke,§ whose prover¬ 
bial veracity is beyond all praise, from their own ocular tes¬ 
timony reconcile the locality of the ancient and modern pla¬ 
ces. “ At Larneca,” observes the former of these writers.}! 
are undeniable proofs of its having been the ancient Citium. 
Perhaps the antiquities now described may hereafter serve to 
confirm an opinion of Drummond’s, founded upon very dili¬ 
gent inquiry, and repealed examination of the country. Dur¬ 
ing the time he was consul at Aleppo, he thrice visited Cyprus, 
and upon every occasion industriously surveyed the existing 
documents of its ancient history. The sepulchral remains oc¬ 
cupying so considerable a portion of the territory w here the 
modern town is situated, appear to have been those of the Ne¬ 
cropolis of Citium ; and this city probably extended from the 
port all the way to Larneca, called also Larnec , and Larnic 
implying, inits etymology, independently of its tombs, a place 
of burial” Descending to later authors, we find this position 
of Citium strongly confirmed by the Abbe Mariti,-ff who dis¬ 
covered very curious testimony concerning it, in a manuscript 
preserved at Yenice,|| From his very interesting account of 
Cyprus, we learn that the erroneous notioas entertained with 
regard to the locality of the city, originated with Stephen de 
Strabon. Geogr. lib. xiv. p. 97©. ed. Oxon. 
j Travels, &c. in a series of letters, by Alexander Drummond, Lond. 1754. 
1 See the notes to the Oxford edition of Strabo, p. 972. 
5 It should be observed, however, that Drummond, although he seems to agree 
with Pocockein the situation of Citium, 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 Drummond’s Travels, lett. xii. p. 243. 
|! Drummond’s Travels, lett. xiii. p. 251. 
Larneca is the name in most common acceptation among foreign nations; but the 
inhabitants call it Larnec, and the Abbe Mariti writes it Larnic. The bay of Salines 
is also sometimes called Larneca Bay. 
ff Travels through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine, by the Abbe Mariti. Eng. edition,. 
London, 1791. 
tt MS. description of Cyprus, by As cagne-savornicn, in the library of Domnin 
fflarni. 
