336 Capt. Koschkull on the Caucasus. 
The Jurassic strata of the Caucasus also contain rich depos- 
its of sulphur. These’ are found in the eastern part of the 
g the pl | 
their imagination had peopled all these subterranean passZ® 
with evil spirits, of which they stood in great fear. Duet | 
ing their superstitions, I penetrated one of the ancient al® — 
; . the 
fairly well wrought mine dently of great antiquity. At : 
: pega gy, laa abe of heaps of mined 4 
salt and hundreds of tools of various forms and sizes, a a 
perfect or more or less worn and broken. These ined, 
ith great labor 
varying from 5 to 15 inches in length, wrought with grea ae 
and considerable skill out of a cok hasatlia rock. re 
of these tools were pierced for the insertion of handles, thongs 
were encircled by grooves for the reception of withes of 
In this respect, as in the character of the material 
they were formed, resembling many of the stone jmplem 1 
Europe, and being apparently*the product of the sr i : 
more accurately speaking, of the same stage of ™ 4 
development, opine 
The salt lakes of which I have spoken occur 02 the Pt the 
las of Taman and Apscheron, and on the plains boi eine 4 
rivers Terek and Kuban, From the concentration of the crust 
solutions of these lakes in summer, on many of them : q 
of salt forms, which attains a thickness of from pag 
inches, This crust ig collected by the inhabitants for 
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