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82 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

A remarkable fpecimen of antiquity, though of later con-ftruction, is the old fortrefs of Inkerman, ere&ed at the^ extremepoint of the harbour of Akhtiar, together with the neighbouringcaverns, which I propofe to defcribe, on account of their con-tiguous fituation. I (hall not attempt to declde, whether itwas a place of defence at that early period, when the Cher-

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