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| [ Untitled] 18 x 28.5 cms. ..........Plates 193 and 194. "...The next morning we departed from thence ( Cythrea) taking some of the people of the place with us that knew all the parts thereabouts, and it was on purpose to see a place situated on the hill, where the bones of men and beasts are to be seen incorporated with the rock, and turned into stone. When I was at Larnaca, the consul was very urgent upon me to go and see that place, and because I did imagine that I should meet with something considerable there, I had caused hammers and chisels to be brought with us, and I did partly execute my design, for I caused some of those bones to be torn from the rock. The chief was a bone like that of a man's arm , which the anatomists call radius........ I wrapped it up very carefully in cotton to carry it with me, and have kept it still, and is represented here in plate 193, as it is in substance, having several stones about it......." ........" these petrified bones are accompanied by another remarkable thing. Some miles distant from Nicosia there is a little mount of petrified oysters, some of which I had also the curiosity to bring away with me. These oysters are full of sand, and others of water: the shells are shut close together, and when they are opened the oyster is to be seen sticking on each shell so natural, that one would think they were engraved thereon: these shells are also petrified or changed into stone.......... and that the oyster dying imprinted its form on the shell, as may be seen represented on plate 194........." Price: CyP 100 |