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they seeni to he, together, with an expression which was dropped by a fellow as we passed by the side of the fossee of Famagosta, made us determine to avoid the risque of being insulted in the town, which both of us had seen before: we therefore turned aside into the garden, where I had formerly lodged ; there we refreshed ourselves with good meat and drink, and cooled onr half-burnt carcases in the shade, from whence we did not stir that whole afternoon ; bnt next morning set out for Larneca, where we arrived in safety, without having seen any other thing worth mentioning ; except large tracts of fine land, which lie quite uncultivated. Thus I finished a tour of about six hundred miles, with less fatigue perhaps than that you will undergo in reading the account of it; for 1 had already written so much to my friends concerning Cyprus, that the little matter it affords was in a good measure exhausted. This letter, however, yon will be so good as to receive by way of testimony of that esteem and affection, with which I continue to be Dear Sir Alexandretta Your most obedient servant November 13,1750. The water is now brought into the city of Lameca. NOTE. The reading given of tlie three inscriptions is, to some extent, conjectural. Contractions are written in full. The stones seen by Mr Drummond at Κύμη τον Γιαλού anil Hagia Napa are no longer to be found there. The place-names on p. 191 BIO correctly written AevKtwto, Αύμναξ, Άλικη, Αμμόχωστος, Κηρίναα, Αψησοΐ and Πάφος : those of trees in ρ, 218 Πλάτανο* (Platamis Oriente!Is), Ktparta (Tiparvta, Χαρονπιά, Ceratoli!» Siliqua), Ικληβρος (AlmiH Orientalis), Μοσφ.λί'α (ïlespilns Gemamene), Καρναι (Καρνά, Jugkms Regia). Άμνγο·α\ίηι('λάασιαί, Amygdalus Communis). Hcpvta (Πρίνο*. Querens Aluifolia), Ά*α>ονκλ« (Arbutus Andraclme), and Άζνφία (Zizyplius Spina Christi). r. 39 DRUMMOXD.

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