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study was zoology; afterwards he cultivated chap. 
mineralogy, botany, and entomology. When > — * — ' 
resident in the Crimea, he was too far advanced 
in years, and too weak in health, to dedicate 
his hours to other studies ; otherwise he might 
have contributed largely to our stock of infor- 
mation. Hitherto, all that has been published 
concerning the geography and the antiquities ot 
the Crimea was written by persons who never 
saw the country. Those who have visited it 
were, unfortunately, neither geographers nor 
antiquaries. 
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We left Kertchy, and proceeded towards Departure 
Caffa'. After the second station we passed Kertchy. 
wolves and foxes, and, of course, the other game is not very plenti- 
ful ; but there are hares, and a few partridges. Between Lambat and 
Aliusehta is the way to aseeud Chatyr Dag, w hich we missed seeing, 
by the blunder of our Jewish interpreter." Heber’s MS. Journal. 
(I) “ We left Kertch on the twenty-third. From thence the road 
winds among swampy uncultivated savannahs, having generally a 
range of low hills to the south, and the Sea of Asoph at some distance 
to the north. These plains are covered with immense multitudes of 
bustards, cranes, aud storks. I saw no pelicans after landing in 
Europe. X never saw an English bustard ; but those of the Crimea 
appeared to be a stouter bird than what is generally represented in 
prints. There are many ruins in this part of the country, aud other 
vestiges of population. We passed two or three small, but solid and 
well-built, bridges over rivulets, which appeared to be of Mohammedan 
workmanship ; aud there were many tombs distinguished by the 
turban. The number of barrows near Kertch is surprising. We 
passed two villages still standing, and reeoguised at once the grotesque 
dresses of the Nagay herdsmen represented by Pallas. At night we 
reached another village some time after dark, and, after a furious 
battle 
