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there was, at the time of my vifit, a fmall muddy fpring,which difcharged a grey mire refembling that of the boggy gulfsnear Yenikale; and which had formed a convex hill on theTide of the trench. Two fimilar, though dry fources, were atthat time (in the monthof June) difcernibleon the oppofite border.Beyond this place, on a fmall eminence, the furface of whichevery where prefents deep fiflures, and alfo various dry fpotsof mire, there are numerous holes or fhallow pits, that containa brackifli water, whence a thick petroleum not unlike tar iscollected. The perpendicular elevation of this height, abovethe level of the Leeman, may amount to fix or feven fathoms,Some other bituminous fprings are faid to exift on a hill,which is diftinguifhable by the rednefs of its foil, towards theYoufhaaya-Kofla; but I had no opportunity of infpeclingthem. Naphtha is alfo produced by many other fpringsoecurring in different parts of the ifle of Taman,

The advanced poft of the Bugas is computed to be abouteighteen verfts from Taman. Here is a remarkably narrow,low fand-bank extending to the South-eaft, and rather lefs thana verft in length: its pointed extremity is oppofite to anotherftill narrower, but fix times as long; being fituated on theTurkifh fide, and having a correfponding one within theLeeman, that terminates near a fmall ifland towards theRuflian coaft. Between thefe necks of land, on the two pointsof which both the Ruffians and Turks have a military poft,the fhallow pafiage is fearcely one hundred fathoms broad;and through this oultet the Kubanfkoi-Leeman difemboguesitfelf into the fea. On the capture of Anape, the auxiliarycavalry of the Crimea forded from one point to the other.

vol. ii. Q_Q^ During

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