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Journey from Taganrog to Taurida.

here is at prefent no direkt poft-road eftablifhed betweeaTaganrog and Taurida; nor do the permanent villages, fomeof which are guarded by the Kozaks of the Don, extend fartherthan the rivulet Berda; the remainder of the way leads overa fteppe inhabited by the Nagais. Thus circumftanced, Ithought proper to fend a mefTenger to the Counfellor of State,M. Hablitzl, my particular friend, and at that time Deputy-governor of Taurida, with a requeft, to order the Nagais toprocure horfes, at certain ftages on the road from Berdato Perekop, left at fo late a feafon I fhould have been underthe neceility of taking the very circuitous route by Bakhmut

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