TO THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESUS. 
by them, as we had reason to expect would be 
the case, with every degree of politeness and 
of hospitality. The evident symptoms of the 
violent fever which the author had caught in 
the bad air of Inkerman might have induced 
many a worthy landlord to deny him admission 
to his house, through fear of the plague ; but 
the brave Spartan, Feodosia 1 , with whom he 
lodged at Balaclava, not only received his whole 
party, but attended the invalid with all the 
solicitude of a kind friend. We arrived by 
moonlight: Feodosia' s house was beautifully 
situate upon a rock, near the harbour. The 
variety of different nations found in the Crimea, 
each living as in its own country, practising its 
peculiar customs, and preserving its religious 
rites, is one of the remarkable circumstances 
which render the Peninsrda curious to a stranger: 
at Baktcheserai, Tahtars and Turks ; upon 
the rocks above them, a colony of Karaite Jeivs ; 
at Balaclava, a horde of Greeks; an army of 
Russians at Akmetciiet ; in other towns, Ana- 
tolians and Armenians ; in the steppes, Nagays, 
Gipsies, and Calmucks: so that, within a small 
compass, as in a menagerie, contrasted speci- 
(0 A corrupt mode of pronouncing Theodosia; as Theodore is often 
pronounced Feodore ; and Theodoric, Feodoric; Federic, and Frederic : 
• bus we Lave the singular derivation of Frederic from Theodore. 
