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ere&ed with free-ftones of a prodigious fize, and having anentrance at the South fide; on the declivity of which welikewife obferved mural enclofures. Between the farm ofPutofhkin, or rather of its prefent pofleflbr Tzukharin, and thatof Ufhakof, I found on a rifing ground an old regulär quany,whence the fquare blocks compofing fuch fortifications haveevidently been obtained. Some of thefe ftones were not totallydetached, while others remained in a finifhed ilate. Many fimilarfoundations occur on both fides of the eminence, and alfo inthe valley where the beautiful farm of Ufhakof is fituated, atthe diftance of about nine verfts from Akhtiar, and fomewhatmore than a verft and a half from the monaftery of St. George.Exa&ly oppofite to this farm, my attention was attracted bythe bafis of a more extenfive building, on an eminence formingthe fouthern fide of the valley, and very near the road thatleads from Akhtiar to the monaftery before mentioned. Variousother foundations are difcoverable here, among which onetowards the South is forty arfhines fquare, having two ditchesfilled up with ftones, not unlike wells in a ruinous condition;and in the centre of this fabric, I perceived a fmall fquare.Another quadrangular ftone-work, fifteen arfhines in extent, isconnected on the North-eaftern fide with the larger one by anoblong fquare fix paces wide, and which is open towards theNorth-weft. Bolh are raifed with very bulky free-ftones, ofwhich three rows are ftill extant on fome parts of the work.From the South-weftern corner, a wall is drawn for abouteighty paces toward the North-weft, whence it proceeds in anorthern dire&ion, forming an obtufe angle near a fmall fquareof fourteen arfhines conftrutted of free-ftones, which are four-

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