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Journey through the South-Weflern Quarter of the Crimean

Peninfula.

In the beginning of March, the weather- became fo agreeable,that I could no longer reftrain my impatience to explorethe remarkable Tauridan Peninfula. I therefore commencedmy journey, and left Akmetfhet on the eighth of March,direöing my courfe towards Bakhtflüfarai, which is computedto be thirty-one verfts diftant.

The way to the river Alma leads partly over elevated plains,and partly through vallies of a pleafing verdure, between cal-careous mountains, fituated at a confiderable dlftance from eachother, and prefenting pit-coal, as well as white layers and ter-races; the South fide of which is peculiarly diverfified. Withregard to foil, thefe hilly regions are nearly fimilar to thofe

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