78 TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

four verfts North and South, and two verfts Eaft and Weft,between the Eating-houfe, as it is termed, and the farmbelonging to M. Ufhakof. Several others may be feen at alefs diftance from each other, within the compafs of about averft and a half fquare, in the environs of the fountain whichlies to the South of the road leading to Balaklava. Moft ofthem are quadrangular, from twelve to fifteen arfhines fquare,and fometimes two of the fides are fhorter. They have notuniformly an entrance on one fide. In the greater number ofthefe ruins, there is only one row of thofe bulky fquare blocksremaining, of which they were ere£ted, and which are fre-quently two arfhines in breadth and thicknefs. In a few, how-ever, we met with two or even three fuch rows of ftones, onepiled upon another: many of them are contiguous to thefquares of field-walls fo often mentioned ; or, in other places,the rubbifh of fuch ftone-work extends to fome diftance intothe open country. Immediately above the farm of Putofhkin,I remarked on an eminence the regulär foundation of a fquare,occupying twelve arfhines, and conftructed of large free-ftones,with an entrance towards the Weft: it is enclofed within thebafis of a lower wall, two fides of which are thirty, and theother two thirty-two arfhines in Iength ; fo that the fmall fquareis not exa&ly difpofed in its centre. Near thefe ruins, andtowards the border of the adjacent low country, there appearsan edifice confifting of two oblong fquares adjoining each other;and on one fide of which I ftill noticed four rows of free-ftonein progreflive order. Not far from this place, I met withanother oblong fquare meafuring ten arfhines by thirteen, alfo

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