HERACLEOTIC MINOR PENINSULA. 
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Ascending this sloping eminence, as soon as we c i™ p - 
reached the summit, we found the walls, the ' , — 
streets, the dilapidated buildings, and the other tiio'oid° 
ruins of the old Chersonesus'. The appearance of 
oblong pavements, mouldering walls, scattered Strabo ' 
fragments of terra cotta, broken amphorae, tiles and 
bricks, belonging to aqueducts, with other indi- 
cations of an antient city, prevailed over the 
whole territory, extending to the sea. The 
Plan which is inserted as a Vignette to this 
Chapter is very imperfect, but it may better 
convey a notion of the situation of those ruins 
than any written description. We laboured 
the whole day in tracing it, exposed to the rays 
of a burning sun : the venerable Pallas, mean- 
while, more active than either of us, toiled 
incessantly ; pacing all the distances, and 
measuring, with his own hands, every wall and 
foundation that remained. After ascertaining 
the extent of those ruins the whole way to the 
Point of Phanari, we discovered, upon the 
western side of the bay of that name, and close 
to the water’s edge, the remains of a building, 
perhaps formerly a light-house. It may have 
given the name of Phanari to the western point, 
as well as to the bay. An arched entrance, 
with two of the walls, and a square opening for 
( 1 ) El ’t % 'ruXx.x Xifpttnrei Strab. lib. vii. 446. ed. Oton. 
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