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Travels in the Crimea.

oince we left the rivulet Berda, we had hitherto only travelledover the fteppe of the Nagays, or, as it is called, the CrimeanSteppe; which, about fifteen years ago, previoufly to its fub-jedüon to the Ruffian Government, and while under that ofthe Khan of this peninfula, ferved as a place of pafturage forthe numerous flocks belonging to the nobility and other opulentinhabitants : it alfo aflbrded a place of refuge for the wanderinghordes of Nagays, who had fubmitted to the Khan of Crim-Tartary. Excepting the villages of the Kirghis, a people whoemploy themfelves both in commerce and in the culture of thefoil, no fixed habitation could be perceived in this region.Thofe Nagays, however, who have been removed thither fromMount Caucafus, and the banks of the Kuban, are beginning

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