Lefkosia Is Completely Out Of The Commercial Route;
It Is Valueless As A Military Position, And It Offers No Climatic
Advantage, But, On The Contrary, It Is Frightfully Hot In The Summer
Months, And Is Secluded From The More Active Portions Of The Island.
It
IS, simply because it WAS; but it should remain as a vestige of the
past, and no longer represent the capital.
*
(The census of Nicosia, taken on 31st January, 1879, represents the
population as follows:--
There is no position throughout the plain of Messaria adapted for a
permanent government establishment as head-quarters. The depressing
effect of that horrible landscape, embracing the extensive area from
Trichomo and Famagousta to Larnaca, Lefkosia, and Morphu, is most
demoralising, and few Europeans would be able to resist the deleterious
climate of summer, and the general heart-sinking that results in a
nervous despondency when the dreary and treeless plain is ever present
to the view. There is no reason why officials should be condemned to the
purgatory of such a station when Cyprus possesses superior positions
where the great business of the future will be conducted. The new road
already completed from Larnaca to Lefkosia must be carried on to Morphu,
and thus connect the north and south extremities of the plain; Kyrenia,
sixteen miles distant, must be connected with Lefkosia; branches must
then be extended to Kythrea and to Famagousta; and subsequently, from
the latter town a direct road must be continued parallel with the south
coast to Larnaca.
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