CYPRUS. 
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‘which had caused this inundation. We reached Larneca at 
eight o’clock, and were on board the Ceres before ten. Cap¬ 
tain Russel’s fever had much increased. The apricots we 
brought for him seemed to afford a temporary refreshment to 
his parched lips and palate, but were ultimately rather injurious 
than salutary. The symptoms of his melancholy fate became 
daily more apparent, to the great grief of every individual of 
his crew. 
During our absence, the English consul had been kindly en¬ 
deavouring to procure for me other reliques from the interesting 
vestiges of Citium. Before I left the island, he obtained, from 
one of the inhabitants, a small, but thick, oblong silver medal 
of the city;-considered, from its appearance, as older than the 
foundation of the Macedonian empire. * A ram is represented 
couched in the front. The obverse side exhibits, within an in- 
dented square, a rosary or circle of beads, to which a cross is 
attached. Of these rosaries, and this appendage, as symbols, 
(explained by converted heathens at tlie destruction of the tem¬ 
ple of Serapis,t) having in a former publication been explicit,:!; 
it is not now necessary to expatiate. That the soul’s immortali¬ 
ty- was alluded to, is a fact capable of the strictest demonstra¬ 
tion.^ The consul from Berytus also presented to me a mag¬ 
nificent silver tetradra'cbm. of Tyre, with the inscription “oi 
iT RE . HOLY . AND . INVIOLATE.” 
t T P O T I E P A X K- A I A XT; A O T 
and also this monogram, marking the year when it-was struct * 
namely, 183 of the Seleuddaii jerah 
7 
•We left Cyprus on the sixteenth of May, steering for the 
coast ot Egypt, and first made land off Danuata. Thence pass- 
* Of this opinion is that teamed antiquary, R. V. Knight, Esq. author of some of the 
most erudite dissertations in pur language. 
f Socrates Scholasticus, lib. v. c. 17. 
| See '• Greek Marbles,” p. 78, 
§ Ibid A most satisfactory proof, not only of the Phoenician origin of this medal* 
but of its relationship to Citium ,fs afforded by the Citiean inscriptions published by 
Pococke, (Description of the East , vol. II. p. 213 .) wherein more than one instance 
occurs of the introduction of the identical symbol, seen upon its obterse side. 
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