TO THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA. 
established if he had published no other work 
than the Flora Rossica, which was begun by him 
under such favourable auspices ; yet the 
barbarity of the people with whom he is com- 
pelled to live, is such, that they will not allow 
him to complete the undertaking. The drawings 
were all finished, and almost the whole of the 
text. To his hospitable and humane attentions 
we were indebted for comforts, equal, if not 
superior, to those of our own country ; and for 
every literary communication which it was in 
his power to afford. When we delivered to 
him our letters of recommendation, he received 
us rather as a parent, than as a stranger to 
whose protection we had been consigned. We 
refused to intrude by occupying apartments in 
liis house ; which had more the appearance of 
a palace, than of the residence of a private 
gentlemen : but one day, when we were absent 
upon an excursion, he caused all our things to 
he moved, and upon our return we found a suit 
uf rooms prepared in his mansion for our recep- 
tion, with every convenience for study and 
repose. The author considers himself as being 
iadebted to him even for his life. The fatigue 
of travelling, added to the effect of bad air and 
unwholesome food, had rendered a quartan 
fever so habitual to him, that had it not been 
lor the care and the medical skill of his benc- 
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CHAP. 
IV. 
