GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Abstract

WE have received three new maps of Cyprus. The first, to which we have already briefly referred, is by the well-known German geographer, Dr. Kiepert, and is a valuable original compilation based upon the English Admiralty chart, but containing many more names of villages, &c., than any other modern map. A noticeable point of this map is the hill-work, which has been very artistically rendered. Stanford's Cyprus is also an original work, with some useful features not found in Kiepert's. The Kaimakamliks and Kazas are all distinctly bounded and named, and although there are not so many names as in Kiepert's map, yet those that find a place appear to have been judiciously selected. The spaces around the map are utilised by the insertion of supplementary maps presenting the agricultural and geological conditions, a section showing the interdependence of these conditions and plans of the chief coast towns and roadsteads. Wyld's Cyprus is on exactly the same scale as Mas Latrie and the Admiralty chart, and appears to be a combination of these two. We notice in one or two places where the positions of villages do not agree in these two authorities, that both positions are inserted on Wyld's map, as though there were two places of the same name. The hills on this map are inferior to Kiepert's; there are few English lithographers that can equal the German in this art. This map, like Stanford's, introduces agricultural and geological insets, and plans of the chief roadsteads and coast towns. We need not be surprised at the alleged unhealthiness of Cyprus, when Mr. Wyld tells us that the average temperature in February is 52.8°Centigrade, and that of July and August 82° of the same scale !