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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
page 276 View PDF version of this page chief commissioner himself being-a small whitewashed room, which exhibited an utter disregard of personal comfort in the interests of government economy. There is a curious old fort within the town which has been altered and added to until it has '. become an absurdity; this would be utterly useless as a defence, and the Turkish guns having been removed, [it is now converted into a prison ; beneath the ground
there are dungeons which are no longer used.
Th e roadstead of Limasol is formed by the projection of the Akrotiri peninsula, which affords (protection from the west and south-west, but it is
directly exposed from the east to the south. The
anchorage is safe, with good holding-ground in ten
fathoms. Th e peculiar shaped peninsula of Akrotiri
is about seven miles wide, and the lake in its centre,
when full, has a width of about four miles ; but during
the exhaustive heat of summer it evaporates to the
dimensions of a mere pool, and leaves its deserted bed
encrusted with a deposit of salt. This lake has no
connection with the sea, and its maximum depth is
under three feet ; the salt is formed upon the same
principle as that of the Lake of Larnaca, and certainly
not by the percolation of sea-water through the sand,
as the Limasol lake is considerably above the sea
level. There is a lighthouse at Cape Gatta, which
can be seen at a distance of fifteen miles, as from its
elevated position the lamp is 190 feet above the sea.
From this point to Limasol the beach is low and
sandy, and has always been accepted as the most
favourable point for a disembarkation of troops.
With historical facts before us there is small excuse
for the blunder committed in landing our army of
occupation, during the extreme heat of July, at
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