SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 
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chap, indemnifying the inhabitants at the same time 
for the losses they had sustained. 
From this village to Aloupha, still proceeding 
by a narrow undulating and devious track among 
rocks, at a considerable elevation above the sea, 
we enjoyed a prospect of the boldest scenery 
in the Crimea. Immediately before us we 
Crti-meio- beheld the stupendous Criu-mf.topoy, men- 
tioned by Strabo, and by other antient geogra- 
phers : this, projecting into the bosom of the 
deep, together with the opposite promontory of 
Carambe, upon the coast of Paphlagmia, divides 
the Black Sea into two parts ; so that mariners 
sailing between the two capes may descry land 
on either side. The antient anonymous geogra- 
pher, whose writings were chiefly extracted 
from Arrian and from Sajmnus Chius, relates that 
Iphigenia, carried from Aulis, came to this 
country'. Procopius 9 , speaking of Taurica Cher- 
sonesus, also mentions the Temple of Diana, 
where Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, was 
priestess: according to him, the Tauri were 
her votaries. It is worthy of note, as will here- 
after appear, that a promontory and village, 
bearing at this day the name of Parthenit, evi- 
dently corrupted from Parthenium, is found to 
(1) Geogr. Antiq. ed. Gronov. L. Bat. 1697. p. 144. 
(2) Procop. de Bell. Goth. lib. hvc. 5. 
