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Saadet-ghirei, died in 1137, or 71 years fince.

Kaplan-ghirei, died in 1149, or 65 years fmce.

Mengli-ghirei, died in 1 154, or 62 years fince.

Selamet-ghirei, died in 1156, or 60 years fince.Befide the vaulted tombs are interred ;

Selim-ghirei, died in 1161 of the Hegira, or 55 years fince.

Arflan-ghirei, died in 1180, or 36 years fince.

Crim, or Kerim-ghirei, died in 1182, or 34 years fince.

The elegant upper maufoleum, fituated beyond the gardens,contains the body of the once beloved fpoufe of Crim-ghirei.This princefs died in the year 1176 of the Hegira, or 40 yearsfince (computed from the year 1798): fhe profeffed Chriftianity,and her name was Dilara Biketz.

The moft commendable circumftance in Bakhtlhifarai, as wellas in many other Tartar towns, is the manner of obtainingwater from diftant heights, by means of fubterraneous earthenpipes, either for the conftant fupply of public fountains, or forconveying it to the premifes of the principal and opulent in-habitants. Thus, the fuperfluous water difcharged from ftonerefervoirs, ferves partly to irrigate the fmall gardens attached totown-houfes, and, partly, by means of pipes laid in a flopingdirecYion, to cleanfe the common fewers, fome of which are con-tiguous to the public founts; fo that thefe aquedudts not onlycarry off all excrementitious matter, but alfo the fweepings ofthe ftreets, both being condu&ed into the brook D{huruk-fu.The Tartar police is remarkably vigilant over the regulation ofthefe canals, which are fupported at the public expence; though,in other towns, for inftance, at Akmetfhet and Kaffa, they havebeen deftroyed through mere malice and neglect.

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