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He introduces the area with references to the
narrow peninsula "whose airs temper the summer
heat, to its superb scenery, and its simple,
thrifty peasantry it owes the peculiar charm
which all travellers appreciate who, like
myself, have just left the torrid Mesaoréa".
He continues with reference to Yiouti mountain
(above Eptakomi). "The grandest scenery is to be
found at the root of the peninsula, where the
last peaks of the Northern Range, densely wooded
and riven into wild forms by the torrents,
terminate at Yioudhi in the sea itself."
"No other part of the island is so
extraordinarily varied, albeit everything is on
a small scale; little plains green with
cotton-fields and melon-gardens, hemmed in by
sheer crags; flat-topped ridges, stony, and
thick set with forest; peaked hills, bare from
foot to top; then other smiling plains, and so
on."
"As the first peaks of the Northern (Kyrenia)
Range are approached, the country becomes more
and more broken, and the coast-road
impracticable: the few villages which exist on
this side, Agios Andronikos, Kilanemos,
Platanisso and Eptakomi, nestle behind the ridge
in deep valleys, or on sheltered plateaux,
raising crops of cotton, gourds, melons and all
kinds of vegetables, wherever there is water at
hand".
"The (northern) coastline is bolder and more
broken than elsewhere in the island, and, added
to the wildness of the forest tracts behind,
gives a singular beauty to the scenery." |
