THE SOUTH-WESTERN COAST OF THE CRIMEA.

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been difcovered, in a valley near Karaffubafar, below the fteepcretaceous mountain of Akkaya. At prefent, however, only afmall quantity of it, or about one hundred poods annually, isexported; becaufe, during the late war, when the commercialintercourfe with the Turks was interrupted, fo that they couldnot be fupplied with this article, refearches were made inAnatolia, where an earth was difcovered, which is in everyrefpect fimilar to that formerly obtained from the Crimea,and which now ferves as a fubftitute at Conftantinople. Itsconfumption in Crim-Tartary itfelf is inconfiderable; thoughthe pood is fold at all the markets for the low price of twentykopeeks. The woollen clofh-raanufactory eftablifhed in thetown of NovorofTeifk, formerly Ekaterinoflavl, could employfuch mineral with great advantage; as in colour and qualityit is not inferior to Engliih Fuller's earth, excepting that it isoccafionally mingled with a fmall proportion of lime, andfometimes alfo contains diminutive kidney-fhaped and globularpyrites. »■

At the diftance of fix verfts from Muilnaya Gora, or theSoap-hill, we arrived at the village of Tlhorguna or Karlofka;though in general it is by the Ruffians called TfhernayaDerevna. It lies on the left of the road leading to Balaklava,in an adjoining and gradually contracting valley, from whichthe rivulet Beeyouk-Oufehen, or Kafikly-Oufehen, openly dif-charges itfelf into the bay of Akhtiar. In this village, belongingto my friend Hablitzl, we pafled the Eafter holidays, underhis friendly roof. Notwithftanding the vicinity of dry rockymountains, its fituation is highly romantic ; together with theancient tower that may be feen from the Balaklava road, and

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