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HOLY LAND, A2CD CYPRUS. 239
dition, and determine on taking the first conveyance to
Malta.
My residence at Larnica was not uninteresting. I had
apartments in a detached pavilion of the vice-consul's, who
was a Zantiot, and had amassed a considerable fortune from
his office during the latter periods of the war, when every
vessel coming to Cyprus bore the British flag.
Though Larnica gives the name to the road in which,
vessels anchor, yet it is distant from the shore nearly a mile,
and is detached to the east from the town which may be,
called the port, and bears the name of La Scala*, about the
same distance. This place contains the custom-house, and
is the mart for trade. It consists of a long street, chiefly
a bazar, where common necessaries of life and articles of
dress are sold ; is inhabited b}r Greeks and Turks; the latter
commonly emplo3red in the affairs of the custom-house, the
former in trade. The houses are low, built partly of mud
and partly of stone, whitewashed.
The space between La Scala and Larnica is barren, as
indeed is the greatest part of the plain at the foot of the
* Scale, term applied in the Levant factories, from Scala in the Lingua
Franca dialect, or from the Turkish Iskeli; signifying literally ladder or stair?,
and figuratively a commercial quay. Clarke, 1st vol. p. 71G.
dition, and determine on taking the first conveyance to
Malta.
My residence at Larnica was not uninteresting. I had
apartments in a detached pavilion of the vice-consul's, who
was a Zantiot, and had amassed a considerable fortune from
his office during the latter periods of the war, when every
vessel coming to Cyprus bore the British flag.
Though Larnica gives the name to the road in which,
vessels anchor, yet it is distant from the shore nearly a mile,
and is detached to the east from the town which may be,
called the port, and bears the name of La Scala*, about the
same distance. This place contains the custom-house, and
is the mart for trade. It consists of a long street, chiefly
a bazar, where common necessaries of life and articles of
dress are sold ; is inhabited b}r Greeks and Turks; the latter
commonly emplo3red in the affairs of the custom-house, the
former in trade. The houses are low, built partly of mud
and partly of stone, whitewashed.
The space between La Scala and Larnica is barren, as
indeed is the greatest part of the plain at the foot of the
* Scale, term applied in the Levant factories, from Scala in the Lingua
Franca dialect, or from the Turkish Iskeli; signifying literally ladder or stair?,
and figuratively a commercial quay. Clarke, 1st vol. p. 71G.