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FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA, 
cipap. other proof that the bodies of the dead had 
v. v — j antiently been consumed by fire. 
Antient If the reader would follow us in the tour of 
Geography , 
and Anti- the Heracleolic Peninsula, it is necessary that he 
the Minor should have the maps, engraven for this Work, 
Peninsula. cons t an tly in liis hand. Leaving Aktiar, and 
following the coast westward, we passed the 
bay where the Russian artillery is stationed. 
Then, arriving upon the bay for quarantine, 
upon its western side we saw the ruins and 
sepulchres of a town perfectly distinct from 
that of Chersonesus, answering the situation 
Eupato- assigned by Strabo to Eupatorimn, a town built 
by Diophantus. His observations state, that 
the promontory, upon which this town stood, 
inclined towards the city, at the distance of 
fifteen stadia, and formed a considerable bay ; 
beyond this was the Ctenus : and he also adds, 
that the inhabitants built a mole across, uniting 
the two towns *. The remains of the mole are 
yet visible; and the distance, allowing for every 
stadium an English furlong 8 , is precisely tftftt 
(1) Strati, lib. vii. p. 450. ed. Oxoh. 
(2) As this rule is generally admitted, and will be adopted through- 
out this work, it may be proper to insert the following passage, 
concerning the Stadium, frotn Casaubon's Commentary upon Strain, 
as given in the Notes to the Oxford edition, p. 467. “ Stadium, inquit 
Pliuius, lib. ii. c. 23, centum viginti quinque nostros effidt passus. Quod 
si 
