Cyprus, As I Saw It In 1879 By Sir Samuel White Baker





















































 -  Although the walls are
in several places crumbling into ruins, they are still imposing in
appearance, and present a clean - Page 76
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Although The Walls Are In Several Places Crumbling Into Ruins, They Are Still Imposing In Appearance, And Present A Clean Front Of Masonry Flanked By Eleven Bastions, And Entered By Three Gates, Those Of Baffo, Famagousta, And Kyrenia.

The original ditch can be traced in various places, but the counterscarp and glacis have been destroyed; therefore the soil has washed in during the rainy seasons, and to an unpractised eye has obliterated all traces of the former important work.

On the other hand, the disappearance of the glacis renders the height of the walls still more imposing, as they rise for thirty or forty feet abruptly from the level base, and at a distance maintain the appearance of good condition.

It is difficult to imagine the reason which induced the Venetians to reproduce Lefkosia after they had demolished the original fortifications; but it is probable that they had already erected the cathedral before the expected Turkish invasion rendered the improved defences necessary. Although in the early days of artillery shell-fire was unknown, both the Turks and Venetians possessed guns of heavy calibre far exceeding any that were used in Great Britain until recent years. The marble shot which are still to be seen in Famagousta are the same which served in the defence of that fortress in 1571. These are nearly eleven inches in diameter, while in the fort of Kyrenia the stone shot are still existing, nineteen inches in diameter, composed of an exceedingly hard and heavy metamorphic rock.

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