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fea; having three diftind paflages, and each of thefe exhibit-ing a kind of bonnets; tili, at length, it terminates in a hillockon the piain, without reaching any of the eminences in itsvicinity. On the fouth-fide of the mound is a broad ihallowditch, containing a faline humidity; and, on the oppoüte fide,are fome excavations, from which the foil appears to havebeen taken, for the purpofe of raifing the rampart.

After having pafled this ridge, or line, we gradually ap-proached fome elevated flats, abounding with luxuriant herbs:here a farm has been erected, on the ruins of the village ofTfhokrak-Koi, having a fpring of good frefh water that runsnorthwards through a clayey Channel. A little farther, on thehigh piain, are feveral tombs furrounded with large flabs of acalcareous fandy fchiftus: they are irregularly feattered, fometimesextending Eaft and Weft, and fometimes North and South: theyare not of Tartar, but probably of Circaffian origin. Two flenderpillars, or tomb-ftones, upwards of a fathom in height, are con-fpicuous among them. On the whole, we obferved here a per-fedl refemblance to the graves near Tokluk, already deferibed.

About eighteen verfts from the great fepulchral vault, onthe fite of another village in a ftate of ruins, we arrived atthe farm of M. Stankevitlh, Lieutenant of Kozaks, beingonly fix verfts from the volcanic muddy eruption, difchargedon the broad ifthmus oppofite to the city of Taman j andwhich is fo diftindtly feen from every fide, that I am inclinedto confider it as the Monumentum Satyri, or fepulchre men-tioned by Strabo.

The Tartars call this mound Kuuk-Obo y or the Blue Hillock jand the Kozaks of Tfhernomorfki (who, fince the eruption of

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