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FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA, 
chap, extensive knowledge of Professor Pallas, we 
, — > are authorised in affirming, that, in warm 
countries, the wounds they occasion some- 
times prove fatal. The amputation of the part 
affected was the only method of saving our 
soldiers in Egypt, who had been bitten by the 
scorpion ; and Pallas informed us, that he had wit- 
nessed the most dangerous consequences from 
the attacks of the Scolopendra, the Phalangium, 
and the Tarantula. 
Departure The evening after we descended from the 
{ chesemt‘‘ fortress belonging to the Jewish colony, we left 
Bahtcheserai, and reached the great bay of 
Aktiar: upon this place the Russians, in the 
time of Catherine the Second, bestowed the 
fanciful name of Sebastopole. We had to make 
a passage of about two versts, across the water, 
to the town. Prince Fiazemskoy, the Governor, 
had stationed a sentinel with a boat, who told 
us he had waited four days in expectation of 
our coming. According to the orders he had 
received, a gun was fired, to give notice to 
the garrison of our arrival. The great bay 
of Aktiar also bears the name of The Roads ; and. 
here the Russian fleet is frequently at anchor. 
Ctfkcs of it i s the Ctenus of Strabo '. The harbour, 
Strabo. 
(1) Strab. Geogr. lib. vii. 
