6o C YPRUS IN 1879. [CHAP.XIV.
we were expected to effect a magic change in the position of Cyprus ; instead of which we have hitherto presented a miserable result of half-measures, where irresolution has reduced the brilliant picture of our widely-trumpeted political surprise to a dull " arrangement in whitey-brown ".. . which is the pervading tint of the Cyprian surface in the absence of artificial irrigation.
