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The adjacent dry and faline piain, which is in a few placesftill inundated by the high billows, and likewife the reipeftiveeminences, fituated at fome diftance from the coaft, exhibitno veftiges of this horizontal ftratum ; but, in all fituationsdeftitute of vegetable foil, there appear in a manner flu&uating,or even inverted, beds of clayey, ferruginous brown, or fand-ftone fchiftus, and, occafionally, alfo the rough calcareous rock.Such is the nature of the whole arid, faline traft, in which thevillage of Toklyk or Tokluk lies, together with its vineyards,about four verfts diftant from the fea, by a defcending road:the latter yield a palatable liquor, and are feparated on theEaft-fouth-eaft fide from the dale of Koos by the Booyouk-Syrt; and, on the North and North-eaft, by the Tokluk-Syrt,the ftrataof which properly pafs through this region : towardsthe Weft, they are bounded by the Altfhak-kaya; and, in thefouthern quarter, by the fea-fhore.

On an eminence occurring in thefe environs, between thecoaft and the village of Tokluk, there is a remarkable rock,meafuring feveral fathoms in height, vifible at a confiderablediftance, and confifting of vaft mafles of diffevered lime-ftonewacca; fome of which continue nearly in their natural pofi-tion, while others are inverted. Among the Tartars, it isknown by the narae of Paralam-kaya, or the Broken Rock;and appears to be a projedting point of a former ridge com-pofed of fuch foffil. A few hundred paces to the South-eaftof the latter, on an arid piain furrounding the hillock, wetook notice of a fingular and apparently very ancient cemetery,which differs from any other difcoverable in Taurida, exceptingthat in the valley of Koos; and is therefore not of Tartarvol. 11. H H Origin.

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