MEMOIR OF PALLAS. 65 
to great cold, with very insufficient covering. This 
accident produced pains, which he hoped the mild 
climate to which he was resorting would abate ; but, 
on the contrary, change of residence, far from assuag- 
ing, only added to his physical ailments more insup- 
portable sufferings, disappointments, and anxieties. 
The Empress, on being informed of Pallas’s desire 
to take up his abode in the Crimea, with much 
kindness gave him a grant of two villages which 
were situated in the richest district of the peninsula, 
along with a large mansion in the town of Sympe- 
ropol, at that time chief city of the district, along 
with a considerable sum of money for his settlement. 
He resorted to this “ scene of delights” at the end 
of the year 1795; but the climate, which had ap- 
peared so delightful during a short journey, even- 
tually proved damp and variable; extensive marshes 
rendered the beautiful valleys pestilential in autumn; 
the winters also proved tempestuous, so that the in- 
conveniences of both a northern and southern climate 
were experienced. Besides, the property which was 
conferred somewhat unceremoniously, found other 
claimants, which occasioned its new lord vexatious 
disputes and lawsuits. Finally, and more than all, 
Pallas had not sufficiently contemplated the void he 
would experience when removed from well educated 
men, and placed in a position where he could not 
enjoy the interchange of thought. Accordingly, he 
was now undeceived regarding his terrestrial para- 
dise, and in the preface of the second volume of his 
“ Travels,” he thus, in the year 1801, expresses his 
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