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created by the barbarism of the Russians 
were very intimidating. When they settled in 
the country, the remains of the city of Cherso- 
nesus were so considerable, that all its gates were 
standing. These they soon demolished; and, 
proceeding in their favourite employment of lay- 
ing waste, they pulled down, broke, buried, and 
destroyed every monument calculated to illus- 
trate its former history ; blowing up its antient 
foundations; tearing open tombs ; overthrowing 
temples ; and then, after removing the masses 
of stone and marble to Aktiar, exposing them 
for sale by cubic measure, to serve as materials 
in building. If the Archipelago should ever fall 
nnder the dominion of Russia, the fine remains of 
Antient Greece will be destroyed ; Athens will be 
rased, and not a stone be left to mark where the 
city stood. Turks are men of taste and pro- 
found science in comparison with the Russians. 
Among other interesting antiquities, removed 
by the latter from the city of Chersonesus, there 
was a beautiful bas-relief, upon a Cippus of white cippus of 
. „ . Theagenes. 
marble, exhibiting sculpture equal in perfection 
to some of the most-admired productions of 
antient artists. This Cippus had closed the 
entrance to the tomb of a philosopher named 
Theagenes. Any of the inhabitants of Aktiar 
might have purchased it, together with a ton 
weight besides of other stones, for a single 
