. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . ere every 163 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. drop of rain is precious, and which suffersso severely from drought, is so necessaryto nurture the roots which would otherwiseperish. The tombs He at the foot of and a shortdistance from the hill on the west andnorth-east sides. Those on the west arecut in the side of
. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . ere every 163 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. drop of rain is precious, and which suffersso severely from drought, is so necessaryto nurture the roots which would otherwiseperish. The tombs He at the foot of and a shortdistance from the hill on the west andnorth-east sides. Those on the west arecut in the side of a rock facing Amathusand separated from the city by a riverbed, dry except after heavy rains. Thoseon the east side are about a quarter of amile distant. They are cut out of the rocksome distance below the surface. Cesnola,who excavated these about the year 1870,says they are between forty and fifty feetbelow the surface of the ground. Theentrances are now all filled up with earthand rubbish, so that it is impossible to getinto them. They are now about twelve feetbelow the ground, and probably from thema long passage leads down to the actualtomb itself many feet lower. In one spot, ata level of about ten feet below the surfaceof the ground, I came across a masonry 164. Limasol and its Neighbourhood. tomb almost totally buried in the encroachingearth, only a few courses of its stone workremaininor. The blocks of stone were ofenormous size, and the joints between themextremely fine. There was not sufficientvisible to allow me to measure a completestone, but Cesnola gives the average size ofthem as follows: Length, fourteen feet, width,seven feet, thickness, two feet. I was ableto measure the width of one, and found itabout six feet, using a stick about three feetlong. It is these tombs which Cesnola sayslie about fifty feet below the surface, and sothe part visible must be the top courses ofthe masonry, and as that was at a depth ofabout ten or twelve feet, they must havebeen ve
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