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river. About five versts from the monastery, chap. 
following the coast, we came to some extensive V— . 
ruins in a small wood, upon the right-hand side 
of our road. In their present state, it is impos- 
sible even to trace a plan of them : the Tahtar 
shepherds, moving the stones to serve as the 
materials of inclosure for their flocks, have 
confused all that remains. Hence we continued 
our journey towards the extreme south-western 
point of the Crimea, and arrived at a place 
called Alexianos Chanter , as it grew dark. The Aiextano's 
barking of dogs announced the comfortable Chauler ‘ 
assurance of human dwellings, and excited a 
hope of some asylum for the night, after severe 
fatigue. We found, however, that what we 
supposed to be a village, consisted of four or 
five wretched fishing-huts. A few Greeks quar- 
tered there offered to lodge us all within a hole 
recently dug in the earth, scarcely capable of con- 
taining three persons, the smell of which place 
we found to be abominable ; it was, moreover, 
filled with sheep-skins, swarming with vermin. 
Having procured a little oil in a tin pan, we 
made this serve us for a lamp; and, searching 
about, at last found a small thatched hovel, with 
an earthen floor, and a place for kindling a fire. 
Here, notwithstanding the extreme heat, we 
burned some dried weeds, in order to counteract 
the effects of miasmata from the marshes and 
vot. it. 
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