OF THE CRIMEA.

489

Gnilöe-Ofero, or Fetid Lake, to the right of the road, as alfobetween this and the Black Sea (from which it is feparatedonly by a fandy narrow ifthmus), the foil is impregnated withfalt, and overgrown with the Plantago maritima, and otherfaline plants. The exhalations of this ftagnant Iake are believedto contribute greatly to the falubrity of the town of Koflof;and on this account they are attended with fimüar effedts tothofe produced by the effluvia from the Sivafh at Perekop;where intermittent fevers are lefs frequent than in otherplaces.

Koflof, as it has always been called by the Ruflians, isby the Tartars termed Gii/I-Ove*. When the Ruflians tookpofleflion of Crim-Tartary, at which time they endeavouredto revive the denominations of the old Greek towns, thename of Eupatoria was allotted to this place; but the realfituation of the ancient Eupatoria is very uncertain. Thetown lies at the diftance of fixteen verfts from Akmetfhet,on a gently rifing eminence, near the ftrand of a circularfhallow bay, having a fandy bottom: hence the heat prevailinghere in fummer is intenfe, even during the night; and verminare numerous. It may alfo be attributed to the fame caufe,that the fevers arifing from fudden changes of temperatureare not common. The town, with the exception of fomedefolate heaps of ruins, and the old fortification, is wellinhabited; but is for the greater part built after the mannerof the Tartars, in crooked, narrow ftreets, with the houfes

* Güs, or Gas, fignifies an eye, and Öv a hut; confequently a hut with an eye, ora round window. The origin of this name cannot be traced.

vol. 11. 3 R concealed