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Journey through the Inferior of the Crimea, along the Peninfutaof Kertß), and to the Ifle of Taman.

After having completed my excurfions over the moreelevated mountains of Crim-Tartary, I had ftill to explore,not only the modern ftratified heights together with the adja-cent piain, but alfo the peninfula fituated towards the Bof-phorus, with its abrupt hillocks, and the oppofite ifle ofTaman, which in many refpe£ts deferres attention. Such were

my laft purfuits during the fummer.

The environs of Akmetfhet, as far as Karaflubafar, the

fecond town of importance in the Crimea, prefent extenfive

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