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RETURN OF THE MANUFACTURES,
MANUFACTURES
Number. Name, Situation, and
Description of
Manufactures, Mills. Works, &e,
ic.
NICOSIA DISTRICT.
One tannery ; one tobacco fac–
tory with a steam cutting machine;
eight steam flour and cotton mills ;
silk and cotton looms; calico printers;
copper-, silver-, and gold-smiths;
dyers ; bootmakers ; rope-walks;
eleven printing presses (apart from
the Government Press) ; eight distil–
leries, in the town of Nicosia, an
Iron Casting Manufactory, and a
.dairy.
Fifteen flour and cotton mills
(water power), and two of steam
power, in Morphou Xahieh.
Fifty-sevenflourand cotton mills
(water power', one tanuery, in Lefka
Nahieh.
Thircy-eighc flour and cotton
mills (water power) and ten steam
power and a manufactory of tiles
(French style) and bricks, in Deyr-
menlik Nahieh.
One tannery, and sixteen warer
mills and fonr steam flour mills, in
Dagh Nahieh.
Cotton looms in nearly every vil–
lage in the Districr.
Many win* and olive-oil presses,
spirit srills in each Nahieh.
SHIPS
Number of
Ships built in
the Island
-
Tons
Burthen
NIL.
*
Registered
according
to
Law
MINES and
Number, Name, Situation, and
Description of
the Mines and Quarries
Sixteen Quarries on the Ayia
Paraskevi Hill and two Quarries
near Kaimakli, one at Kuru
Monastir, and one at Lefka
Five Quarries near Kythrea, one
at Kuru Monastir, and one at *
Ambelikou
T w o near Eylenja.
One near Yerolakkos, one near
Ayios Vasilios, one near Kio-
nelli, and one near Ayia Mari-
na-Shilloura, a Marble Quarry
near Kionelli, one near Kyra,
and one uear Angoulos.
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