68 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

parts of the Crimea, and I obferved many in a particular fpot,fome of which were oval, occafionally an oval and a circularone, or even two of a round form near each other. Therüde manner in which the circumference of fuch ftone-work isufually arranged, bears evident marks of their remote antiquity.

On purfuing our journey along the rugged fouthern (höre,which henceforth gradually declines, we obferved in the interiorparts on the right confiderable tradts of ground covered withfquare enclofures in a ruinous ftate, and which appear to havebeen conftructed fimply of ftones without mortar, a mode ofbuilding that is ftill pra&ifed in the Crimea. We were obligedto crofs feveral foundations of fuch walls, efpecially on ap-proaching Fanary Bay. After defcending from this eminence,we followed the road which leads to a farm eftablifhed by thelate Vice Admiral Alexiano, and fituated at the diftance often verfts from the monaftery of St. George, in the faline lowcountry bordering on the bay above mentioned.

One of the moft remarkable regions, however, of thewhole Cherfonefus, with regard to its antiquities, prefentsitfelf on proceeding from the angle of this bay, and thefarm of M. Alexiano, to the extreme point of land termedFanary*, which extends to the length of two verfts and a half,and terminates in a piain furface. The land towards thehigher fouthern coaft is fo deeply interfe£ted by two creeksproceeding from the main bay, that this little peninfula is,between their extremities, fcarcely more than three hundredfathoms in breadth. It expands, however, from the latter fpot,

* This ifthmus of the Crimea has in fome French maps been improperly denominatedCap Famar.

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