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to build a kind of fuburb, and to eftablifh a market, in orderto promote the fupply of provifions and other commodities forthe part of the town fituated beyond the harbour, and whichare carried thither from the villages along the banks of theKatfha and Belbek. The North Point, before alluded to, is acontinuation of that ftony mountain, which, according to ac-curate menfurations, rifes in a perpendicular line from fixty toone hundred and thirty feet above the level of the fea; and itsgreateft elevation is towards the weftern fea-fhore. From thisplace, the ufual conveyance to the town is in ferry-boats whichcrofs the harbour; but carriages and waggons are generally leftbehind, at the poft-houfe.

The maritime town of Sevqßopol is at prefent called Akhtiar^from a Tartar village formerly fituated on the North fide of theharbour, at the diftance of three verfts from Inkerman. Onaccount of its excellent port, the building of this place wascommenced immediately after the occuparion of the Crimea,and it has fince very rapidly increafed. The town is fituatedin the form of an amphitheatre towards the South of theharbour, along a neck of land which extends between the fmallfouthern bay, called You/hnaya, and a ftill fmaller one, termedthe Artillery-Bay, as is reprefented in the fourth plate. Theifthmus proceeds from a feries of calcareous beds, which rifeprogreffively as they recede from its extremity towards thefhore ; being fomewhat more than thirty feet high near thatpoint, but attaining the height of one hundred and ninety feetabove the furface of the fea, at the upper part of the town.This elevation, together with the oppofite fteep bank, likewifecompofed of lime-ftone, inclofes the fouthern bay, which is

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