A magnificent fountain burst from the precipices above, the stream from which foamed through the village, and found its way across the narrow but fertile plain to the sea.
This stream turned a number of mills in its descent, and a portion of it was distributed through the gardens, and there, tumbling from terrace to terrace, formed numerous beautiful and refreshing cascades.1 1 For the extended journal of Messrs.

Thomson and Pease, see _Missionary Herald_ for 1835, pp.

398-408, 446-452.
The Archbishop of Cyprus being independent of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the encyclical letter against Protestant missions known to have been received from the metropolis, produced no decided hostility.

The mission was reinforced in 1836 by the arrival of Rev.
Daniel Ladd and wife, and Rev.James L.Thompson.A Lancasterian school had been opened at Larnica with seventy pupils, and a school for educating teachers with fourteen.

There was very great need of schools, it being ascertained that, in thirty-six villages between Larnica and Limasol, containing more than a thousand families and a population of more than five thousand, only sixty-seven, besides the priests, could read at all, and the priests not fluently.