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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
page 230 View PDF version of this page destruction of indispensable utensils had inflicted a
loss more than equal to the value of Iiani's animal.
The following morning (12th April) exhibited the
extraordinary change of climate between the northern
and southern sides of the Carpas mountain-range.
The average temperature of the week had been at
7 A.M. 57i°, 3 P.M. 66\ ". A t Morphu the thermo
meter at 7 A.M. showed 62°, and at 3 P.M.830! It
was precisely the same on the following day.
It was a distressing contrast to the beautiful Kyrenia and the interesting north coast to have exchanged the green trees and rippling streams for the arid and desolate aspect of the Messaria. The town of Morphu has no special interest ; like all others, it consists of houses constructed of sun-baked bricks of clay and broken straw, with flat-topped roofs of the same materials. There are fruitful gardens irrigated by ^water-wheels, and formerly the extremely rich sandy loam of the valley produced madder-roots of ex
cellent quality, which added materially to the value
of the land. This industry having been completely
eclipsed by the alizarine dye, Morphu has to depend
upon silk and cereals for its agricultural wealth. The
population is composed almost entirely of Greeks.
There is a monastery and a large school.
I rode to the bay, about four miles and a half distant,
passing many villages, which, as we neared the sea,
were in the midst of magnificent crops of barley and
wheat, resulting from artificial irrigation by the water
that percolates beneath the sandy bed of the dry river
at a certain level, which has been led into numerous
channels before it can reach the natural exit at its
mouth. It must be exceedingly unhealthy, as, for
several square miles upon the sea margin,, the country
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