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CHAP. 
V. 
FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA, 
one above another. If there be any thing to 
support Formaleoni's opinion, it is the circum- 
stance of the foundation of a monastery and 
chapel so near to the spot. The early Christians, 
in the destruction of Pagan edifices, almost 
always erected new buildings, sacred to their 
own religion, upon the spot, and often with the 
materials, of the old. The Monks of the 
monastery, in the ground behind their chapel, 
had recently found a small stone column, whose 
shaft was seven feet eight inches and a half in 
length, and thirteen inches in diameter. This 
column, together -with a few broken slabs of 
marble, and other antiquities discovered there, 
seem to prove, supposing Formaleoni's position 
of Parlhenium. to be correct, that in this situation 
stood the old Chersonesus, described by Strabo, 
after speaking of the new, as in ruins, and 
occurring after the Promontory That there is 
some reason, however, to dissent from the 
opinion maintained by Formaleoni, will appear 
in the sequel ; as there is a promontory between 
the Monastery of St. George and the harbour of 
Balaclava ; and this, independent of the tradition 
concerning it, is perhaps more suited to the 
account Strabo has given of the fane of the dccmon 
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