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from each other. This line is faid to extend northward as faras the fea of Azof, and here appears, at the higheft part of itsfurface, to proceed directly Eaft and Weil, for feveral verfts;after which it apparently turns more to the South r towardsthe bay of Theodofia. According to the Information I havebeen able to collect, thefe mural veftiges are moft evident be-tween Porpatfli and Korfetfh: they continue their courfe fromShiban to the South-weft, towards the lake and village ofTureke; then towards Sarigoll and Adfhikall, where the wallhas been joined to the mountains rifing in the vicinity of Kaffa.Fragments of ftone are perceivable both on the ftraight lineand on the furrounding prominences. In one place nearShiban, a projecting border of rocky fquare mafles has beenconnected with the wall. The hillocks, here alluded to, arefrom fixty to eighty paces in diameter; and the intermediatediftance is generally not lefs than one hundred and eightypaces. On the weftern fide, there are a few indiftinct tracesof ditches, together with many pits, that have probably fup-plied the clay ufed in building the wall. It fcarcely admits ofdoubt, that thefe veftiges indicate the very ancient rampart,erected by Asander acrofs the peninfula, for its defence; andof which Strabo* gives an account: the diftance betweenthe towers, however, not correfponding with that before

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* " Nomades bello magis, quam latrociniis, funt dediti j bel/a gerunt propter tributa ; agroienimfuos colendos iis, quibus lubet, concedunt; content!, pro locatione, certoßipendio, eoque nonad abundantiam, fed ad neceffarios quotidiänx vite ufus temperato ; et non perfolventibus belluminferunt. — §>uod autemß'tpendia non folvunt altert, id faciunt viribus fuis conßß, quia autpropulfare adventantes, aut etiam adituß pojfe arcere fentiunt; id qued Afandrum feciffe fcribitHypficrates, qui iflhmum peninfula ad Maotidem CCCLX ßadiorum muro duäo munierit,denis turribus inßngu/aßadia conßitutis" — Strabo, Lib. VII.

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