72 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

to have ferved for garden-ground; and the extreme foutherncorner, on leaving behind the laft ftreet or parallel wall, hasprobably been deftined for a cemetery, as there is reafon tobelleve from about ten heaps of flone-rubbifh difpofed in analmoft regulär order. In the interior of the town, and at thefea-coaft, we noticed the foundations of ftill larger edificesconftru&ed of hewn ftone; but the greater part of which hasbeen removed. On the hollow ground which extends fromthe fecond creek into the country, no veftiges of buildings aredifcoverable ; and on the extremity of the wide piain oppofitethe point of the light-houfe, there are only the walls dividingempty fquares. To delineate the whole of thefe ruins, wouldhave required more leifure than I could fpare during my fhortvifit; nor would fuch labour have been attended with adequateadvantage.

The light-houfe, eretted on the angle of the weitem ex-tremity, appears to be a modern ftruclure, which is indebted forits origin either to the later inhabitants of the Cherfonefus, orto the Genoefe. It is built of fmoothly hewn ftones, clofelycemented with calcareous mortar. At the North-weft fide,where it ftill proje&s upwards of feven feet above the wall,there is a handibme roundly arched entrance; and the innerfpace is two fathoms and two arfhines, or eighteen feet eightinches, Engliih meafure, in diameter. On the fide next thefea, part of the wall is demolifhed, probably in confequenceof the fragments of rock thrown on fhore by the violence ofthe waves. In order to raife the tower, which is fituated onthe very edge of the coaft, and to render this promontorymore vifible to navigators, large pieces of white lime-ftone have

been