SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 
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the eastward of the Criu-metopon, in the vicinity ci * *ap. 
of Aloupkci. Thus, while Strabo and Ovid place 
the Promontory of Parthenium in the Heracleotic 
Chersonesus, other circumstances seem to fix its 
situation near the most southern point of the 
Crimea : and should this be admitted, it would 
only assign, as in the history of other popular 
superstitions, a difference of locality to the same 
rites. Leucate, in the Ionian Sea, is not the only 
promontory celebrated for the story of the 
Lovers Leap. 
As we advanced, the wide prospect of the 
Black Sea extended below upon our right. To- 
wards our left, towering to the clouds, and 
sometimes capped by them, appeared lofty 
naked precipices, here projecting in vast pro- 
montories, there receding, and forming bays, sur- 
rounded by craggy rocks, whose sloping sides 
resemble those immense theatres of Antient 
Greece, prepared more by Nature than by 
the art of man 3 . The upper strata of these 
mountains, notwithstanding their prodigious 
elevation, are all of limestone. Not a single 
fragment of granite is any where to be seen. 
(3) The antient theatres of Greece sometimes consisted of an entire 
*no unlain, to whose natural form seats were adjusted. Of this 
description is the theatre at the Hiernn, in Epidauria ; at Telmessus, 
in the Guljih ij f Glaucus ; and at Chccronea, in Haotiit. 
