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Journey from Aßrakhan to the Lines oftbe Caucafus.

J.T would have given me much fatisfa&ion to have protra&edmy ftay at Aftrakhan, where I found numerous obje&s ofamufement and inftruction hitherto unexplored, though M.Gmelin has publifhed a detailed defcription of this importantcity. But as the autumn approached, I was defirous to obtainfome knowledge of Mount Caucafus, though I had a longjourney to make into Taurida. I was confequently obliged tohaften my departure, and left Aftrakhan with regret.

On the 2Öth of Auguft, in the afternoon, I dire&ed mytravelling carriages to be ferried to the weftern bank of theVolga; and on the evening of the fame day, the Captain of this

Port,