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the air of the place was so bad, that the most CI ^ P - 
rigid abstinence from every kind of animal food 
was insufficient to preserve his family from 
fevers. We left him resolved to pass the 
remaining portion of his life in cultivating vine- 
yards, among the rocks of Sudak, upon the 
south coast of the Peninsula. There was reason 
to hope, that, upon the death of Paul, he would 
have been called to honours and emoluments ; 
but subsequent travellers in Russia do not 
furnish intelligence -so creditable to the admini- 
stration of the new sovereign. When the late 
Empress Catherine sent him to reside in the 
Crimea, with a grant of lands in the Peninsula , 
it was intended for the re-establishment of his 
health, and as a reward for his long services : 
neither of these purposes had however been 
accomplished. A magnificent establishment, in 
the midst of an unwholesome air, was all the 
recompence he had obtained. Owing to these 
circumstances, we find him, in the sixtieth 
year of a life devoted to science, opening his 
last publication with an illusion to “ the 
disquietude and hardships ichich oppress him in his 
present residence, and embitter his declining days*.” 
We used every endeavour to prevail upon him 
to quit the country, and to accompany us to 
(2) See Preface to Pot. II. of his Travels in the South of Russia, 
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