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cattle ; but afterwards becoming stagnant, and C1 | I AP - 
proving extremely unwholesome, it was again 
drained. Crossing this area towards the mains of 
. n . , r Phana • 
south, the remains of a temple appear, ot con- goria , 
siderable size, built after the Grecian model. 
Here the workmen employed in the fortress 
discovered a considerable quantity of antient 
materials ; such as marble columns, entabla- 
tures (many with inscriptions), marble bas- 
reliefs, and other pieces of sculpture ; these 
they have buried in the foundation ol that 
edifice, or destroyed in making lime’. Near 
the ruins of this temple are also those of some 
other public edifice, which must have been of 
prodigious size, for its remains cover a great 
extent of ground. The marble, and other stone, 
in the antient buildings of Phanagoria are 
substances foreign to the country: the Isle of 
Taman produces nothing similar. The materials 
found here were brought either from the Crimea, 
from Greece, or, in later ages, by the Genoese 
from Italy. Among fragments of those extra- 
neous substances, we observed upon the shore 
even the productions of the mountain Vesuvius ; 
and could readily account for their appearance, 
having often seen the Genoese provide ballast 
(3) An entablature, broken for this purpose, is described in p. 46 of 
the Account of the Greek Marbles at Cambridge, No. XXIV. 
