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The Hon. Mr. Strangways on the 
The first excursion he should make is to the valley of Crasnoe 
Celo. There, in the three ravines which cut the western side of 
the valley, passing through each of the three villages of Pavlovsky, 
Bartashinsky, and Colomensky, * sections of the three strata of 
limestone, black clay, and blue clay, give a perfect idea of the re- 
gular and undisturbed position of the principal mass of the lime- 
stone formation and subjacent beds. The limestone fossils are also 
abundant and well preserved in this neighbourhood. The lakes 
of Doudorof present but little interest in themselves, but on the 
eastern bank of the upper lake rises the hill of Teply Sad, covered 
with a fir wood, remarkable for the beautiful and rare plants to be 
found beneath its shade. East of this hill, a branch connects it 
with Doudorof, a hill of equal or greater elevation than Teply Sad, 
and consisting, like it, of steep terraces of the upper limestone beds, 
rising from the plateau formed by the lower ones. The escarp- 
ments of these terraces, especially the precipice west of the Fin 
church, looking towards Teply Sad, are on a scale far surpassing 
what the general view of the country gives reason to expect. The 
summits of this hill are very peculiar in their form, and are very 
well laid down in the great map of the environs of the Capital. 
They appear to have been formerly covered with wood, as Teply 
Sad still is. In every hollow is seen a small pool or lake, or the 
* These three villages, together with the heights on which they are placed, are called 
collectively by the name Crasnoe Celo, or Red Seat (red and beautiful being synonymous 
in Russian). The custom of calling a number of villages or hamlets by one common name 
is very general in this country. Thus half a dozen, having each distinctive appellations, 
between Doudorof and Tepley Sad, go by the name Paiola; the hamlets called Toxova 
extend several miles ; three villages compose what is called Cabozy ; three more Tocotela, 
&c. This is perplexing to the stranger, but is now in some degree remedied by the 
erection of posts, on which the name of each village or hamlet, however small, is written 
up at each end of it, together with the name of the proprietor, and the number of houses 
or inhabitants. 
