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The environs of Sevaftopol, or Akhtiar, may be confideredas truly claflic ground; on almofl every ftep of which theinquirer meets with Greek antiquities, that muft have been ftillmore numerous, before the town of Akhtiar had rifen from theruins of the ancient Cherfonefus. I fhall here colle&ivelyrelate all the obfervations made at different periods, and duringvarious excurfions or journies in this countryj but, with re-ibet to its ancient ftate, I fhall be guided by Strabo, whois fcrupuloufly accurate in his Vllth book, where he defcribesthe banks of the Black Sea, and thofe of the Sea of Azof:it will, however, be ufeful to premife a phylical and geogra-phical account of the South-weftern quarter of the Crimeanpeninfula, fo that I may diftinctly point out the remains ofantiquity difcoverable on its foil.

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