3 l6 JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF THE CRIMEA,

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In the vicinity of Old Temruk, a remarkable phenomenonhappened in 1799. As this event may ferve to elucidate notonly the theory of the muddy eruptions, often alluded to in thepreceding fe&ion, but likewife that of volcanos, it here defervesparticular notice. According to the moft authentic accounts,confirmed by witneffes, who were prefent on the occafion, itwas about fun-rife on the 5th of September, in the year abovementioned, when a fubterraneous noife, and foon after adreadful thundering, were perceived in the Sea of Azof, oppo-fite to Old Temruk, about one hundred and fifty fathomsfrom the {höre. This inteftine convulfion was fpeedily fol-lowed by a report, not unlike that of a cannon; while the

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