CHAP. VII.]
CYPRUS.
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I went to Larnecca, the chief city of the isle, and over the water at last to Beyrout.
*** The writer takes leave to suggest that none should attempt to read the following account of the late Lady Hester Stanhope, except those who may already chance to feel an interest in the personage to whom it relates. The chapter (which has been written and printed for the reasons mentioned in the preface) is chiefly filled with the detailed conversation, or rather dis- course of a highly eccentric gentlewoman.
