FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
for their vessels in the Bay of Naples, where the 
beach is covered by volcanic remains. These 
substances, found upon the Bosporus, may here- 
after be confounded with the productions of a 
volcano distant only twenty-seven miles from 
Taman, called, by the Tahtars, Coocoo Obo : the 
Tchernomorshi give it the name of Prekla 1 . The 
eruptions of Prekla, although accompanied by 
smoke and fire, have not yet been followed by 
any appearance of lava. The result has been a 
prodigious discharge of viscous mud. An ex- 
plosion took place on the 27 th of February 
1794, at half past eight in the morning; and 
was followed by the appearance of a column of 
fire, rising perpendicularly, to the height of 
fifty fathoms from the hill now mentioned. This 
hill is situate in the middle of a broad angular 
isthmus, upon the north-east side of the Bay of 
Taman, distant eight miles from that place, in 
a direct line across the water, and only ten 
from Yenihale on the Crimean side of the Bos- 
porus. The particulars of this extraordinary 
phenomenon are given so much in detail by 
Pallas 2 , that it would be useless to repeat them 
here. Observations upon volcanic eruptions of 
(1) A term used also by the Main- Russians, to signify Hell. It is 
remarkable, that the Icelanders call their volcano Hekla, which 
perhaps, in their language, has the same signification. 
(2) Vcl. II. p. 318. 
