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of ornament, but without any knowledge of C | 1 I ^ P- 
their real nature, or even common attention to v - 
the position of the figures; so that they are 
seen in all directions, sometimes lying sideways 
in a wall, or wholly inverted. A number of 
interesting relics of this kind were in imminent 
danger of disappearing for ever, when we 
arrived : they were collected as substances for 
the repairs of the church. We purchased three 
very remarkable slabs of antique marble, with 
the view of sending them to Cambridge; but a 
dispute arising among the proprietors con- 
cerning the division of the money, the bargain 
w as set aside, and the marbles were detained. 
They have since been described in a work 
published by Pallas, relating to his Travels in 
the South of Russia, where the reader will also 
find them accurately delineated '. Mr. Tweddell, 
°f Trinity College, Cambridge, had recently vi- 
sited this country, and had left with Professor 
Pallas his own beautiful transcripts of every 
(0 See vol. II. PI. XVII, XVIII. One of these is of very remote 
•late, referring to the history of the Jiosporus prior to the time of 
Afithradates the Great. It has the following inscription: 
UACIAEYONTOCnAPPICAAOTTOTCnAPTOKOTAetKCTPATOC 
Another inscription on a bas-relief, written IIOIIAITI6KOC- 
CAXAI, may perhaps be read IIOIIAlYie KOCCAX AH’f • but even 
thereby, the reading, although evidently that of a Cippus or common 
tomb-stone, is not much illustrated. 
