3H JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CRIMEA,

habiting thefe regions. In the fame level, there are a feweminences, with fepulchral barrows; and, on one of fuch ele-vations near the poft-road, there appears to have been anancient redoubt, of which I could obtain no Information. Itconfifts of a broad wall, forming a fquare, with bonnets orereftions at the Corners, and a faliant angle at the weitemcurtain. On the fouth fide, near the eaftern bonnet, is a widepaflage: in the ditch, at the fouth-weftern corner, is a well ofbrackifh water, of an hepatic tafte; and, in the intrenchment,are fome excavations, which appear to have ferved as fubter-raneous huts. Immediately beyond the poft-houfe here efta-blifhed, we arrived at the Perejfiß, a fand-hill, which, at itscommencement, is more than a fathom and a half high: itrefembles in form an oblong fquare rampart, being flat on itsUpper furface, and occupying the narroweft part of the iflhmusbetween the Sea of Azof and the Temrufkoi-Leeman, which isthus naturally defended. This fand-ridge, the border of whichtowards the Ihore is confolidated with fea-reeds, declines in thecentre, and again rifes towards Old Temruk, lying at thediftance of fix verfts from the new city of that name: theformer was fituated on a hill, furrounded with water; wasfortified by ramparts; and, according to tradition, was ere&edby the inhabitants of the ifland, with the view of reftrainingthe Don Kozaks; who were accuftomed to pay predatory vifits,advancing in boats to the mouth of the Leeman.

The fea-winds having fwollen the mouths of the Temruk-fkoi-Leeman, and this place containing few remarkable objects,I was induced to return, in order to examine the mud-hill inthe north-weftern angle of the ifland, which has lately excited

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