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FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE CRIMEA, 
chap. m ens of living rarities are singularly associated. 
— v > Nor is it only with a view to its modern statis- 
tical history that the traveller finds so much 
to interest him; his attention is continually 
diverted from mere statistical considerations by 
the antiquities of the country. At Balaclava 
they ottered for sale several Greek coins, of 
uncommon beauty and rarity; the most re- 
markable were of silver. Of these we shall 
briefly notice five, which are not generally 
known 1 . 
Upon the heights above the mouth of the 
port, are the ruins of a magnificent fortress. 
harbour. The arms of Genoa are upon the 
(I) They were as follow: A silver medal of Heraclea, ,PR*cirui 
nitoris, to use the words of Pliny concerning the city to which it be- 
longed. Heraclea, according to that author, was the name of the 
('hersonesian city ; and this medal exhibits upon one side a bearded 
head of Hercules, covered by the lion's spoils ; and upon the other, 
within an indented square, the word HPAKAF.1A, with the letters AAM. 
A silver medal of Phocis, of similar size and workmanship, having on 
one side a bull's face ; and for reverse, the head of Apollo, with the 
letters OOKI. A third in silver, and of the same size, perhaps of 
Elis : it has on one side an eagle’s head, and for reverse a thunderbolt. 
A fourth, of yet smaller size, and of the same metal, is unknown : it 
lias upon one side a scorpion ; nud upon the other, within an indented 
square, a dolphin. A fifth , and last, was a bronze medal of lilurme- 
talccs king of Uosporus, having in front the regalia sent from Rome for 
bis coronation, with the legend BASIAEtlS POIMHTAAKOT, and for 
reverse, the letters MH in a wreath of laurel. 
Genoese 
Fortress. 
Genoese when they possessed this 
