TO THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESUS. 
Peninsula Major , or Tauiuca Chersonesus. 
Within this small district stood the cities ot the 
old and new Chersonesus ; Eupatorium : the Temples 
of Diana, and the Promontory Parthenium, cele- 
brated in the story of Iphigenia; the famous 
Chersonesan Mole; with numerous ramparts, 
tombs, canals, and other works, the memory of 
which historians have preserved, but the last 
traces of whose magnificence the Russians daily 
labour to annihilate. 
Prince Viazemskoy had prepared apartments 
for us in a palace belonging to the Crown, 
similar to the edifice already noticed at Stara 
Crim; but there was at this time resident in 
Aktiar a countryman of ours, in the Russian 
service, an illiterate man, whose vanity we 
found would be piqued if we did not take up 
our abode with him. He was originally em- 
ployed as a servant to the astronomer who 
accompanied Cooke in his second voyage; and, 
owing to the powerful interest made in his 
behalf, by Professor Pallas, and by other persons 
of high respectability, he had obtained the 
command of an expedition to the north-west 
coast of America, of which Sailer has since 
published a narrative. He had the rank of 
Commodore; and his claim as a countryman, 
added to his other pretensions, induced us to 
