TO CAFFA. 
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It is from Panticapceum that the imaginary chap. 
Anacharsis of Barthelemy is said to have em- 
barked, for his travels in Greece. Here, in 
antient times, stood a temple of JEsculapius ; in 
which was preserved the bronze vessel men- 
tioned by Strabo as having burst in consequence 
of a severe frost upon the Bosporus'. If any 
future traveller should look for the site of that 
temple where the present church of Kertchy 
stands, he will not, perhaps, be far fiom the 
spot. Upon the introduction of Christianity, 
and especially in countries where it wholly 
superseded the antient superstitions, temples 
were almost always made subservient to the 
purposes of the new religion. 
A Greek merchant of Kertchy applied to us, Account of 
. c a Stranger 
to purchase the books and manuscripts ot a W ho died 
person, who had died there of a consumption 
some years before, and who had been educated 
in England. He described the deceased as one 
who had employed all the latter part of his life 
in writing an account of the antiquities of the 
Crimea ,• who seldom conversed, but spent all 
his time in close application to his studies, and 
ultimately died of want, although he would 
(4) Strab. Geogr. lib. ii. p. 10D. F.il. Own. 
