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THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 
NEW SERIES. 
No. XXVITI.—JULY, 1860. 
NOTICE OF A SKULL BROUGHT FROM KERTCH, IN 
THE CRIMEA. 
BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., 
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. 
Read before the Canadian Institute, January 21st, 1860. 
The Anglo-French campaign of 1855 in the Crimea, led to a gen- 
eral familiarity with much concerning that remarkable peninsula, of 
which we were in ignorance before. Its geography, its ethnology, 
and its antiquities all attracted attention ; and rewarded research by 
novel disclosures ; and its ancient history acquired a fresh interest, 
and received new illustrations from the investigations of the half 
obliterated remains of its long extinct past. Among its ancient his- 
_ torical sites, which, owing to peculiar circumstances, received a large 
‘share of attention, that of Kertch is, on various accounts, the most 
remarkable. Built on the site where, some 500 years before Christ, 
the Greek city of Panticapeum was founded, it was the centre of an 
area rich with memorials of the strangely chequered past, which has 
seen the same spot successively occupied by Milesian Greeks, 
Romans, Huns, Tartars, Genoese, Turks, and Russians. The Rus- 
sian occupation of the Crimea dates only from a late period in the 
eighteenth century, but since then, a Museum had been formed in 
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