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by feveral arches of the fame material; but the falling of therock has deftroyed part of its exterior wall. Befide the chapel,which is fituated exa&Iy at the corner, there beglns anotherconvenient paiTage, likewife excavated in the rock. It extendsupwards of one hundred paces along the declivity towards thebay, and has only two openings for the admiffion of light.Where this walk terminates, and whether any grottos may beconnected with it, cannot be afcertained; for it is at prefent,like moft of the grottos, employed as a gun-powder magazine jand is confequently both locked up, and guarded. Notwith-ftanding the exhalations anfing from the falt-marfhes in theneighbourhood, the powder depofited in thefe cellars is notonly preferved in a dry ftate, but it has alfo been obferved toacquire an additional degree of ftrength, if it be fuffered toremain there for a confiderable time.—About five hundredpaces from the corner, up the rivulet before mentioned, feveralwell-executed grottos appear beneath the rocky bank, whichextends to nearly one hundred paces in length. Some of thefehave likewife been converted into powdcr-vaults: and at thefarther diflance of one hundred paces, namely between thefteep mountain and the rivulet, which is here frequently afathom and a half in depth, we could trace the veftiges of awall that is again continued on the oppofite bank as far as themountains ; and on this fide it appears to have been furnifhedwith a gate.

After croffing the mouth of the rivulet Beeyouk-oufehen, in aboat to Akhtiar, the calcareous mountains of Inkerman, parti-cularly on the right of this port, imperceptibly diminifli; andat length form a level furface towards the Severnaya-KofTa, or

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