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low grounds. Willows and poplars flourifh in this foil, andought to be planted in numbers; becaufe the whole country isentirely deftitute of wood.

The pleafant eftate of Spafkoi (which was firft laid out by aperfon of the name of Fabre', but afterwards transferred toPrince Potemkin, by whom it was beautified) is fituated tothe well of the town, upon a fandy declivity towards the Bug,where copious fprings of the fineft water occur. Thefe havebeen colledted into an elegant fountain, encompaffed withftone, clofe to which is a bath, ere&ed in the form of atemple, together with a cold and a fhower-bath: in the gardenare planted vines and fruit-trees. The eminences betweenthis eftate and the town afFord a delightful profpedt of thelatter, and over the furrounding country to the diftance oftwelve verfts, as far as the village of Bogoyavlenlköe, which islikewife built in the vicinity of fprings, and is embelliftiedwith a pleafure-houfe and garden. The whole angle, betweenthe Ingul and Bug, contains a ftratum of calcareous ftone, in-terfperfed with fhells; of which foflil the houfes in Nicolaefare conftru&ed; and this ftratum extends weftward, acrofs theBug, into the country of the newly eredted fea-port townof Odefta.

The banks of the Bug, below the town, are alfo remarkablefor the remains of Greek antiquities there difcovered. Abouttwenty verfts down the ftream, oppofite to Kiflatofka (a placefituated on the right bank of that river, near which occurs afmall falt-lake, and where the Kozaks of Saporogi formerlyhad a fiftiery) between the defiles of Volfkaya and Shirekkaya,

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