TO THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESUS. 
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which he has mentioned. A place for quaran- 
tine is now built upon this bay, and it divides 
Eupcilorium from Chersonesus ; for immediately 
after passing the Quarantine appears the pro- 
montory whereon the city of Chersonesus was 
situate : it is now covered by its ruins 
Upon the eastern side, below the walls of the 
town, are the antient sepulchres of the Cherso- 
nesians, in great number, ranged in very regular 
order. The plain between Chersonesus and 
Eupatorium is also covered by ruined build- 
ings ; and to the south of the former city, at 
the distance of a verst behind the Promontory, 
upon an eminence, is a tumulus of a size so 
si cst, necesse cst miliarc unum stadia efficere octo. Plutarchus in Grac- 
chis, p. 838. tom. I. edit. F. Furt. to Si ft! Xm i*™ aruSim Ix'iysi iiratu-. 
atque h&c diinensioue ubi sunt Plinius, Livius, ut alibi docuimus, et 
Dionysius Halicamassensis, atque alii. Polybius quoquc, libro tertio, 
Taurto, in quit, /h/ltipdriSTai xal rurv/iuvrai »urh tmiiltus txru S i% 'Vu/uum 
i<n/tix5s." 
(l) The following valuable document may account for the desolate 
appearance of the city, and direct future travellers to some of its 
remains, very differently situated. I shall recur, hereafter, to the 
fact alluded to, of the baptism of Vladimir. “ Metropolis vetusta Kors- 
sunii, qua genii Ruthenorum princeps dedit baptisma et nomen Chris- 
tianum, postea verb pradam genlibus nostris, excisa ab eis. Unde 
JCiovia nostra in templorum suoruni lithostratis, asarotis , et incrusta- 
mentis retinet hucusque certa prada illius insignia, d quibus et Gnes- 
nensi Basilica valvam largita cst Excerpta 6 MichaTonis Lituani 
fragmenti* ,| c Moribus Tartarorum. 
VOL. II. P 
CHAP. 
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Cherso- 
nesus. 
